connotateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnəteɪt/

動詞

connotate (三人称単数 現在形 connotates, 現在分詞 connotating, 過去形および過去分詞形 connotated)

1. To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.
   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Lees of Happiness Chapter 3

     George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.

   • 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...

     A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.

関連する語

• connotation
• connotative

参照

• “connotate” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.