THESAURUS
signification
acceptation, affective meaning, allocation, assignment, attribution, bearing, characterization, coloring, connotation, consequence, construction, denomination, denotation, designation, determination, differentiation, disclosure, drift, effect, essence, expression, extension, fingering, fixing, force, gist, grammatical meaning, hint, idea, identification, impact, implication, import, indication, indicativeness, intendment, intension, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, manifestation, meaning, message, moment, momentousness, naming, overtone, pertinence, picking out, pinning down, pith, point, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, practical consequence, precision, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, selection, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, show, showing, significance, significancy, significatum, signifie, signifying, span of meaning, specification, spirit, stipulation, structural meaning, substance, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, symptomaticness, tenor, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, value, weight, weightiness
ROGET THESAURUS
signification
Meaning
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meaning,
signification, significance, sense, expression, import, purport, force, drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance, gist, essence, marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, &c 543 prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation, synonym, implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech, acceptation, meaning, expressive, suggestive, allusive, significant, significative, significatory, pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning, declaratory, intelligible, literal, synonymous, tantamount, implied, explicit, to that effect, that is to say.