signifier

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signifier - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  signifier
      n 1: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a
           word that can be used to describe or identify something;
           "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem
           and a list of inflections to be attached" [syn: form,
           word form, signifier, descriptor]