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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
referent is a noun and adjective meaning "something referred to; the object of a reference". It carries 4 recorded senses.
something referred to; the object of a reference
the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
something that refers; a term that refers to another term
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for referent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.