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Appellation
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- They are now actively collecting ephemera, the collector's appellation for old paper things.
- Your attraction to alliteration averted the achievability of any actually apt appellation.
- For once, this overused appellation applies.
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Word Origin & History
appellation
late 15c., "action of appealing" (to a higher authority), from O.Fr. appellation (13c.), from L. appellationem (nom. appellatio), noun of action from appellare (see appeal). Meaning "designation, name given to a person, thing, or class" is from mid-15c., from a sense also found in M.Fr. appeler
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