Usually means: Literal or primary meaning of word.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word denotation:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. denotation: Merriam-Webster
  2. denotation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. denotation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. denotation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. denotation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Denotation, denotation: Wordnik
  7. denotation: Wiktionary
  8. denotation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. denotation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. denotation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. denotation: Dictionary.com
  12. Denotation (Semiotics), Denotation (semiotics), Denotation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Denotation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. denotation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. denotation: Rhymezone
  16. Denotation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. denotation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. denotation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. denotation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. denotation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. Denotation: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. DENOTATION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Denotation (semiotics), denotation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. denotation: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. denotation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
noun:  (logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
noun:  (philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
noun:  (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
noun:  (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
noun:  (media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.

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