Usually means: Entity or concept being referenced.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word referent:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. referent: Merriam-Webster
  2. referent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. referent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. referent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. referent: Vocabulary.com
  6. referent: Wordnik
  7. referent: Wiktionary
  8. referent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. referent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. referent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. referent: Dictionary.com
  12. Referent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. referent: Rhymezone
  14. referent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. referent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. referent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. referent: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Referent: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. referent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. referent: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes: what it refers to.
noun:  That which is referenced.

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