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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONNOTATION, n. The act of making known or designating with something; implication of something beside itself inference. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression [syn: intension, connotation]
2: an idea that is implied or suggested

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1532 1. a. the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes b. something suggested by a word or thing ; implication <the connotations of comfort that surrounded that old chair> 2. the signification of something <that abuse of logic which consists in moving counters about as if they were known entities with a fixed connotation — W. R. Inge> 3. an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic — compare denotation • connotational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 that which is implied by a word etc. in addition to its literal or primary meaning (a letter with sinister connotations). 2 the act of connoting or implying.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Connotation Con`no*ta"tion, n. [Cf. F. connotation.] The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(connotations) The connotations of a particular word or name are the ideas or qualities which it makes you think of. It's just one of those words that's got so many negative connotations... 'Urchin', with its connotation of mischievousness, may not be a particularly apt word. = association N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Log.) Meaning, intension, comprehension, depth, intent, force, sum of attributes expressed or implied.

Moby Thesaurus

affective meaning, allegory, allusion, arcane meaning, assumption, bearing, coloration, coloring, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, grammatical meaning, hint, idea, impact, implication, implied meaning, import, inference, innuendo, intension, intimation, ironic suggestion, lexical meaning, literal meaning, meaning, metaphorical sense, nuance, occult meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, presumption, presupposition, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, supposition, symbolic meaning, symbolism, tenor, tinge, totality of associations, touch, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, value