Signifier

What do we mean by signifier?

One that signifies. noun

A linguistic unit or pattern, such as a succession of speech sounds, written symbols, or gestures, that conveys meaning; a linguistic sign. The signifier of the concept “tree” is, in English, the string of speech sounds (t), (r), and (ē); in German, (b), (ou), and (m). noun

One who or that which signifies, indicates, or makes known. noun

The sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign. noun

The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something noun

Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.

The sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.

Words that are spelled similarly to signifier:
signifier, signified, signifies, signifer, signifie, dignified, ignified, magnifier, lignified, sinified, dignifies, significs, signifiers, signifieds, lignifies, sinifies.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word signifier:
signified, signification, phallus, semiotics, transcendental, symbolic, arbitrary, linguistic, imaginary, signs, meanings, sign, floating, meaning, object, relation, jacques, concept, concepts, represents, psychological, representation, symbol, interpretation, context, mean, identity, word, difference, sound, sounds, language, subject, differences, definition, contrast, expression, understanding, image, refers, bar, reality, chain, defined, things, lack, relationship, ideas, cultural, cannot, itself, particular, attempts, reason, words, specific, fact, how, becomes, content.

Adjectives that are often used to describe signifier:
empty, transcendental, phallic, privileged, primary, key, important, pure, cultural, linguistic, single, powerful, ultimate, imaginary, enigmatic, particular, master, visual, universal, racial, central, floating, mere, paternal, cinematic, major, potent, crucial, absent, dominant, arbitrary, symbolic, complex, prime, transcendent, original, verbal, visible, mythical, fundamental, stable, textual, principal, lacanian, despotic, sexual, supreme, ethnic, unstable, iconic, transparent, negative, literary, maternal, phonic, musical, unique, metonymic, primordial, overdetermined, order, unconscious, slippery, hidden, ambiguous, repressed, essential, obvious, absolute.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective signifier:
side, outside, formation, fetishism, relation, lisible, signified, relationship, president.

Consonant match to signifier:
signify a, signify he, signify her, signify who.

Words that sound like signifier:
signifier, signify, signifies, signifiers, signal fire, signifer, signified, sigma phi, signifying, signaler, signaller, magnifier, sunfire, sun fire, signature, signiture, cinephile, signalize, signatur, signior, sinophile, sonify, dignify, unifier, dignifies, sent for, send for, set afire, signon, signal, signals, safire, signa, semaphore, cygnet, cygnus, snuffer, seen after, samphire, signatory, cigna, science fair, sigma chi, signoff, signum, semaphor, sigma pi, signally, signifiant, seignior, ignify, signate, signac, lignify, sign for.