signifier

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From signify + -er.

“Et cela doit signifier,” said she, “qu’il y aura là dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-être pour vous aussi, mademoiselle. — Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Charlotte Brontë
I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms, I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters, I see where druids walk’d the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain, I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods, I see the old signifiers. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

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