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Referent

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Referent"

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Word	Definition
referencenoun	The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
footnotenoun	A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
benchmarknoun	A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
baselinenoun	A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
charismaticnoun	A member of the Charismatic Movement.
thingnoun	That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
itemnoun	A distinct physical object.
subjectnoun	The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
topicnoun	Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
objectnoun	A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
entitynoun	That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
antecedentnoun	Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
signifiednoun	(linguistics, semiotics, philosophy) The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.
targetnoun	A goal or objective.
themenoun	A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
denotationnoun	(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
denotatumnoun	(linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
designatumnoun	(semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
meaningnoun	The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
exemplarnoun	Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.