signifier
- n the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- Race will remain a primary signifier for a long, long time.
- In the 1980s he began to work creamy flows of paint across the canvas in an all-too-plain signifier for the surface of water.
- A signifier of class struggle since the late 1800s, the color red was once ubiquitous in communist strongholds such as the Soviet Union and China.