referent

英 ['refərənt] 美 ['refərənt]

• n. 被谈到的事；[语] 语词所指的对象

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 指示物
2. 【语】指示对象
3. 被谈到的事物、概念等
4. 【语】语词所指的对象

英英释义

Noun:

1. something referred to; the object of a reference

2. the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate

3. something that refers; a term that refers to another term

Adjective:

1. having reference;

   "judgments referent to the indictment"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Some philosophers think that the meaning of a name just is its referent.
   有些哲学家认为一个名称的含义就是其所指。

经典引文

• Many..of these apparently 'meaningless' verses..have hidden historical and social referents.

  出自： A. Lurie

近反义词

【近义词】

• original 原始的