- a descriptive name or designation, as Bald in Charles the Bald.
- a common noun.
- designative; descriptive.
- tending toward or serving for the assigning of names: the appellative function of some primitive rites.
- pertaining to a common noun.
- an identifying name or title; appellation
- grammar another word for common noun
- of or relating to a name or title
- (of a proper noun) used as a common noun
