An alien looking like the one to the left or it is french for and.
This is the word's denotation
The dictionary meaning of a word. The literal meaning of a word.
The dictionary meaning is the same as the denotative meaning.
You would look the word up in a dictionary. The dictionary will give you the meaning, as well as other information about a word.
That word is not in my dictionary
The first meaning of a word is referred to as "denotative meaning". This is the dictionary definition. The second meaning of a word is referred to as "connotative meaning". This is not in the dictionary.
The dictionary meaning would be the denotation, or denotive meaning of a word, as opposed to the subjective meaning or connotation, which includes cultural implications, slang, or idiomatic meanings of a word.
In a dictionary.
It is the MEANING of the word.
A word dictionary contains the meaning of many words. Depending on the brand of dictionary, it can have diagrams, pictures, example sentences and more to help explain the word meaning.
It comes from a Latin word 'dictionarium' meaning collection of words and phrases
The connotation of a word is its literal dictionary definition. The denotation of a word is its inferred meaning.