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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| denotation (ˌdiːnəʊˈteɪʃən) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act or process of denoting; indication |
| 2. | a particular meaning, esp one given explicitly rather than by suggestion |
| 3. | a. referent Compare connotation something designated or referred to |
| b. another name for extension | |
The basic dictionary meaning of a word, without its connotations. For example, the denotation of the word modern is “belonging to recent times,” although the word may have different connotations.