搜尋結果
connotation
- IPA[ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃn]
英式
- an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning;the abstract meaning or intension of a term, which forms a principle determining which objects or concepts it applies to.
noun: connotation, plural noun: connotations
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning the word ‘discipline’ has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression the work functions both by analogy and by connotation
- ▪ the abstract meaning or intension of a term, which forms a principle determining which objects or concepts it applies to.