Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To suggest or imply in addition to literal meaning.
- transitive verb To have as a related or attendant condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
connotate . - To signify; mean; imply.
- [This meaning was introduced by J. S. Mill. A word connotes those attributes which its predication of a subject asserts that that subject possesses. But connote is now often loosely used in such a sense that any attribute known to be possessed by all the objects denoted by a term is said to be connoted by that term. Mill discountenances this use of the word.
- Synonyms Note, Denote, Connote, See the definitions of these words.
- To have a meaning or signification in connection with another word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
- transitive verb (Logic) To imply as an attribute.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
signify beyond itsliteral orprincipal meaning. - verb transitive To possess an
inseparable related condition; toimply as alogical consequence . - verb intransitive To express without
overt reference; to imply. - verb intransitive To require as a logical predicate to consequence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- verb express or state indirectly
Etymologies
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Examples
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The roots of the word connote "the gathering of knowledge" and this sense some years ago in my European lunch companions led me into a very fruitless argument about e.g. whether Aristotle was a scientist.
science: the ancient / modern distinction Bill Kerr 2009
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The roots of the word connote "the gathering of knowledge" and this sense some years ago in my European lunch companions led me into a very fruitless argument about e.g. whether Aristotle was a scientist.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009
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A few heroines who carry the name connote eroticism, shrewdness and the alien (sometimes associated with the stereotype of a Jew).
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The arrangement of things into classes, such as the class _metal_, or the class _man_, is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class, but not on a mere general resemblance: the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things, of certain common peculiarities; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote, and which the propositions consequently assert; not the resemblance.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Even the terms connote sex: "rear naked choke hold," "top, bottom and mounted" positions.
unknown title 2009
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Organic labels connote the natural ingredients used to make the product were grown without pesticides, chemicals and other traditional methods now thought to be unhealthy.
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Organic labels connote the natural ingredients used to make the product were grown without pesticides, chemicals and other traditional methods now thought to be unhealthy.
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(This reminded me that he had constantly seen me in the country; a memory which I had retained, but kept out of sight, because, since I had seen Gilberte again, Swann had become to me pre-eminently her father, and no longer the Combray Swann; as the ideas which, nowadays, I made his name connote were different from the ideas in the system of which it was formerly comprised, which
Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896
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We have seen that they denote a quality or qualities of something, and that is precisely what general terms connote: 'honesty' denotes a quality of some men; 'honest' connotes the same quality, whilst denoting the men who have it.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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It is a better proposal to regard their denotation and connotation as coinciding; though open to the objection that 'connote' means 'to mark along with' something else, and this plan leaves nothing else.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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