Signified

Definitions

The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.

Equivalents

Examples

“Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open⟳, and all you can think⟳ about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.”

“In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become⟳ new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.”

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