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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.
signification is a noun meaning "the message that is intended or expressed or signified". It carries one recorded sense.
the message that is intended or expressed or signified
“what is the meaning of this sentence”
“the significance of a red traffic light”
“the signification of Chinese characters”
“the import of his announcement was ambiguous”
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 signification come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.