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Crossword vs Connotation - What's the difference?

crossword | connotation |

As nouns the difference between crossword and connotation

is that crossword is (senseid)(games|puzzles) a word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word while connotation is a meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning a characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

crossword

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
  • Synonyms

    * crossword puzzle

    See also

    * acrostic * cryptic crossword * game * puzzle

    connotation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
  • The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
  • A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation .
  • The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

    Antonyms

    * denotation

    Synonyms

    * intension

    References

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