signification

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sig=ni=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

signification, n. [F. signification, L. significatio.].

•  The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.  [1913 Webster]

  "A signification of being pleased."  [1913 Webster]

  "All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

signification, n.
1 the act of signifying.
2 (usu. foll. by of) exact meaning or sense, esp. of a word or phrase.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L significatio -onis (as SIGNIFY)

THESAURUS

signification

acceptation, affective meaning, allocation, assignment, attribution, bearing, characterization, coloring, connotation, consequence, construction, denomination, denotation, designation, determination, differentiation, disclosure, drift, effect, essence, expression, extension, fingering, fixing, force, gist, grammatical meaning, hint, idea, identification, impact, implication, import, indication, indicativeness, intendment, intension, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, manifestation, meaning, message, moment, momentousness, naming, overtone, pertinence, picking out, pinning down, pith, point, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, practical consequence, precision, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, selection, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, show, showing, significance, significancy, significatum, signifie, signifying, span of meaning, specification, spirit, stipulation, structural meaning, substance, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, symptomaticness, tenor, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, value, weight, weightiness

ROGET THESAURUS

signification

Meaning

N meaning, signification, significance, sense, expression, import, purport, force, drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance, gist, essence, marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, &c 543 prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation, synonym, implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech, acceptation, meaning, expressive, suggestive, allusive, significant, significative, significatory, pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning, declaratory, intelligible, literal, synonymous, tantamount, implied, explicit, to that effect, that is to say.