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Definitions of referent
  1. adjective
    having reference
    "judgments referent to the indictment"

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  2. noun
    something referred to; the object of a reference
  3. noun
    something that refers; a term that refers to another term
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  4. noun
    the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
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Definition that contains referent
  • result the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
  • demonstrative a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  • antecedent the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
  • determinative one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
  • reflexivity the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
  • preferentially in a preferential manner
  • anaphor a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
  • vocative case the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
  • coreference the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
  • determiner one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
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