[{"word":"denotation","phonetic":"/ˌdiː.noʊˈteɪ.ʃən/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˌdiː.noʊˈteɪ.ʃən/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/denotation-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60359157","license":{"name":"BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"}}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The denotations of the two expressions \"the morning star\" and \"the evening star\" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different."},{"definition":"The intension and extension of a word","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/denotation"]}]