Designation

Noun

 * 1) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
 * 2) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
 * 3) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
 * 4) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

Adjectives for Designation
appropriate ;playful; substitutive; territorial; felicitous; apt; proudest; patrician; fitting; proper; correct.

Verbs for Designation
appoint—; arrange—; arrive at—; decide—; denote—; describe—; determine—; indicate—; justify—; name—; point out—; prepare for—; refuse—; search for—; — appeals; —serves.

Thesaurus
allocation, appellation, appellative, appointment, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening, clan, classification, cognomen, color, cryptonym, definition, denomination, denotation, description, determination, differentiation, disclosure, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, feather, fingering, fixing, form, genre, genus, grain, handle, hint, honorific, hyponym, identification, ilk, indication, indicativeness, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, nomination, number, ordainment, ordination, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, posting, precision, proper name, proper noun, proposal, race, recognition, scientific name, secret name, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tabbing, tag, tautonym, terming, the like of, the likes of, title, transferral, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, variety

Translations

 * Finnish: nimittäminen


 * Danish:, benævnelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: nimitys, titteli
 * French: appellation
 * German: Bennung


 * Icelandic: heiti
 * Norwegian: benevning, nemning
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: benämning, beteckning