denotation
n. 指称意义,本义
例句
The denotation of the word "home" is a place where one lives but has many connotations.
“家”这个词的意义是一个人居住的地方,但它还有许多内涵。
The word "yellow" in the second line of Tony the Tow Truck, its denotation is that it is a certain color, the color that Tony's garage is painted.
《托尼拖车》第二行中的“黄色”一词,它的意思是它是一种特定的颜色,托尼的车库被漆成的颜色。
A word's meaning is made up of both denotation and connotation.
一个单词的含义是由表面义和引申义组成的。