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Webster 1913 Edition


connote

con-note′

(kŏn-nōt′)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
connoted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
connoting
.]
[See
connotate
, and
cote
.]
1.
To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
Good, in the general notion of it,
connotes
also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing.
South.
2.
(Logic)
To imply as an attribute.
The word “white” denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen,
connotes
, the attribute “whiteness.”
J. S. Mill.

Webster 1828 Edition


Connote

CONNOTE

,
Verb.
T.
[L., to mark. See Note.] To make known together; to imply; to denote or designate; to include. [Little used.]

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connote

connote

See also: connoté

English

Verb

connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)

  1. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
    Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.
  2. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
    Poverty connotes hunger.
  3. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
  4. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

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Asturian

Verb

connote

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of connotar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of connotar

French

Verb

connote

  1. first-person singular present indicative of connoter
  2. third-person singular present indicative of connoter
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of connoter
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of connoter
  5. second-person singular imperative of connoter

Spanish

Verb

connote

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of connotar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of connotar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of connotar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of connotar.