Library / English Dictionary

SIGNIFIED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

Example:

the signifier is linked to the signified

Synonyms:

sense; signified

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("signified" is a kind of...):

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "signified"):

acceptation; word meaning; word sense (the accepted meaning of a word)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb signify

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mr. Micawber, with a random but expressive flourish of his knife, signified that these performances might be expected to take place after he was no more; then resumed his peeling with a desperate air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One night when Miss Murdstone had been developing certain household plans to her brother, of which he signified his approbation, my mother suddenly began to cry, and said she thought she might have been consulted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)