connotateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒnəteɪt/

動詞

connotate (third-person singular simple present connotates, present participle connotating, simple past and past participle connotated)

1. To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.
   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Lees of Happiness:

     George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.

   • 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...:

     A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.

関連する語

名詞

connotate (plural connotates)

1. (obsolete, rare) A meaning or thing connotated.

参照

• “connotate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.