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signified en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.
    • In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations. 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9:
    • Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

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signifieds Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

signifier · referent

Translations (9)

cmn 所指 (concept evoked by a sign) · el σημαινόμενο (concept evoked by a sign) · fi merkitty (concept evoked by a sign) · ru означа́емое (concept evoked by a sign) · ja 所記 (concept evoked by a sign) · cs signifikát (concept evoked by a sign) · de Signifikat (concept evoked by a sign) · fr signifié (concept evoked by a sign) · ja シニフィエ (concept evoked by a sign)

signified en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of signify
    form of signify