signified

IPA: sˈɪgnʌfaɪd

(linguistics, philosophy) The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.

Examples of "signified" in Sentences

The signified is the conceptual component.
It signified the soaring high of the legendary Liverbird.
Intension is analogous to the signified, extension to the referent.
Initially, the label signified that 100% of the wood used in a product was harvested by sustainable methods.
Let animal be the term signified by A, mortal by B, and immortal by C, and let man, whose definition is to be got, be signified by D.
Bush called himself the “asterisk candidate,” referring to the fact that an asterisk following his name signified that poll takers found no support at all for him.
Flandry didn't know what the title signified -- and Merseian grades were subtle, variable things -- but it was plainly a high one, since the aristocratic-deferential form of address was used.
In his book The Peace Process, William Quant traces American-led negotiations from the mid-1970s when the term signified a "gradual, step-by-step approach to resolving one of the world's most difficult conflicts."
I had been taught that “itis” at the end of a word signified some kind of inflammation and I was exposed to the insight that “gastr” was supposed to make you think about stomachs; so I creatively surmised correctly that the word “gastritis” might well relate to inflammation of the stomach.