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1. Pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
    
2. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names
   "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
   - naming

1. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
   - appellation, denomination, designation

Derived forms: appellatives

See also: denotative, denotive, noun

Type of: name