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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Appellation \Ap'pel*la"tion\, noun [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See {Appeal}.]
1. The act of appealing; appeal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. The act of calling by a name.
3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. --Hume.
Syn: See {Name}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
appellation
noun: identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {denomination}, {designation}, {appellative}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "appellation": appellative, baptism, binomen, binomial name, byword, calling, christening, cognomen, cryptonym, definition, denomination, designation, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, handle, honorific, hyponym, identification, label, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, proper name, proper noun, scientific name, secret name, style, styling, tag, tautonym, terming, title, trinomen, trinomial name
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