denomination | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, designation |
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(noun) a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith | - |
(noun) a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money | - |
denominationalism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: sectarianism |
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(noun) the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations | - |
denominator | (noun) the divisor of a fraction | - |
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denotation | (noun) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to | Synonyms: extension, reference |
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(noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: indication |
denotatum | (noun) an actual object referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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denouement | (noun) the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work | - |
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(noun) the outcome of a complex sequence of events | - |
denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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