connote, denote. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

connote, denote (vv.)


To denote is “to mean or to indicate the explicit” or “to signify directly”; to connote is “to convey indirectly” or “to mean or indicate the inexplicit.” The word money denotes wealth, and to most of us it connotes travel, clothes, cars, and good times.	1