Appellative: Definition and part of speech

Appellative

n. An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
a. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
a. Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
n. A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

adv. After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

n. The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; — opposed to appellor.
n. The defendant in an appeal; — opposed to appellant.

v. t. To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
v. t. To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.