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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DESIGNATION, n.
1. The act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; as the designation of an estate by boundaries.
2. Indication; a showing or pointing; a distinguishing from others.
3. Appointment; direction; as, a claim to a throne grounded on the designation of a predecessor.
4. Appointment; a selecting and appointing; assignment; as the designation of an officer to a particular command.
5. Import; distinct application.
Finite and infinite are primarily attributed in their first designation to things which have parts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: appellation, denomination, designation, appellative]
2: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, assignment, designation, naming]
3: the act of designating or identifying something [syn: designation, identification]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. the act of indicating or identifying 2. appointment to or selection for an office, post, or service 3. a distinguishing name, sign, or title 4. the relation between a sign and the thing signified

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a name, description, or title. 2 the act or process of designating. Etymology: ME f. OF designation or L designatio (as DESIGNATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Designation Des`ig*na"tion, n. [L. designatio: cf. F. d['e]signation.] 1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of the days of the week. --Whewell. 4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase. Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. --Locke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(designations) A designation is a description, name, or title that is given to someone or something. Designation is the fact of giving that description, name, or title. (FORMAL) ...the designation of Madrid as European City of Culture 1992. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Indication, specification, pointing out, particularization, selection. 2. Kind, class, description. 3. Name, appellation, title, style, denomination. See epithet.

Moby Thesaurus

allocation, appellation, appellative, appointment, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening, clan, classification, cognomen, color, cryptonym, definition, denomination, denotation, description, determination, differentiation, disclosure, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, feather, fingering, fixing, form, genre, genus, grain, handle, hint, honorific, hyponym, identification, ilk, indication, indicativeness, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, nomination, number, ordainment, ordination, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, posting, precision, proper name, proper noun, proposal, race, recognition, scientific name, secret name, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tabbing, tag, tautonym, terming, the like of, the likes of, title, transferral, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, variety