referent
- n something referred to; the object of a reference
- n the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
- n something that refers; a term that refers to another term
- s having reference
judgments referent to the indictment
- The court faulted the French courts for citing "the lack of a paternal referent in the household", and said the woman's homosexuality had been "if not explicit, at least implicit .
- I looked up the definition: "anaphor - a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent".
- AS, after readers alerted him: "The video doesn't make it seem so bad, and the referent is clearly broader than just gay rights.