REFERENT

referent

(adjective) having reference; “judgments referent to the indictment”

referent

(noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term

referent

(noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate

referent

(noun) something referred to; the object of a reference

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

referent (plural referents)

(semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.

That which is referenced.

Anagrams

• rent-free, tree fern, treefern

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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