signification
- n the message that is intended or expressed or signified
the signification of Chinese characters
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Soho, 332 pp., $25 The Nigerian-born New York cab driver’s full name, Ikechukwu Uzondu, means “God’s strength” – a sturdy, assured signification. But for most Americans, the paired consonants are too hard to pronounce, so he has shortened it to...
Jan. 21, 2014 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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- Samuel Johnson in Independent Online
There are a huge number of web sites devoted to a task once the preserve of what Johnson called the "harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words" - the lexicographer. - John Conyers in Washington Times
But Mr. Conyers said that Justice "is currently withholding signification information." - Chen Kaige in China Daily
'The Promise,' fraught with eastern ambience, is about fate,Chen said, "The signification of life represented by the falling flowers, a common image in Chinese classical poems, is the profound thoughts, or humanity. They naturally exit in the...