Words similar to signified
Example sentences for: signified
How can you use “signified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
This led to civil war and the despotic rule of Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar whose new title of Augustus Caesar signified the collapse of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 b.c.
Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)
A reasonable question is whether or not the periodicity signified by the outcome of an autocorrelation treatment can occur by chance alone.
However, in German, French, and Dutch, pony (or pony hair ) has always signified that hairstyle, even long before the ponytail came into fashion.
But its plural form duendes also signified `household gods,' like the Roman Lares and Penates, and took on even broader, pantheistic overtones in duendes de las montañas y de las cuevas `spirits of the mountains and caves.