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Synonyms for signify
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : sig-nuh-fahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪ |
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Définition of signify
Origin :- late 13c., "be a sign of, indicate, mean," from Old French signifier (12c.), from Latin significare "to make signs, show by signs, point out, express; mean, signify; foreshadow, portend," from significus (adj.), from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Intransitive sense of "to be of importance" is attested from 1660s. Meaning "engage in mock-hostile banter" is American English black slang first recorded 1932.
- ...'signifying,' which in Harlemese means making a series of oblique remarks apparently addressed to no one in particular, but unmistakable in intention in such a close-knit circle. ["Down Beat," March 7, 1968]
- verb mean, indicate
- verb be of importance
- But if you determine as we would have you, and signify it to us, we shall not stand with you for a week or so.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Signify to us, now, therefore, your compliance with our wishes.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Nelson replied: "Take your choice, Hardy, it does not signify much."
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- If they do not, and if I should have occasion, I can but signify my wants to so ready a friend.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- What will signify expostulations against a ceremony performed?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- This word does not signify the same thing as with us, gentle reader.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
- And Miss Miggs cast up her eyes to signify where that might be.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- It is remarkable that both terms also signify certain kinds of wood.
- Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin
- She will take a wrong view of my character, but what does that signify?
- Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
- After all, what does it signify, whether cleanliness be owing to nature or to art?
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete » by Anthony Hamilton
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