acceptation
[noun]
Synonyms: meaning, import, intendment, message, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, understanding

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acceptation noun

1. the meaning that a word or expression is generally accepted as having
   Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘favourable reception, approval’): from late Latin acceptatio(n-), from the verb acceptare (frequentative of accipere ‘take something to oneself’, from ad- ‘to’ + capere ‘take’). The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.

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