Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin, substantive use of dēfīniēns (“[a] defining”), present active participle of dēfīniō.
