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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Denomination \De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy:
cf F. d['e]nomination a naming.]
1. The act of naming or designating.
2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an
epithet; a name designation, or title; especially, a
general name indicating a class of like individuals; a
category; as the denomination of units, or of thousands,
or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
Those [qualities] which are classed under the
denomination of sublime. --Burke.
3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same
name a sect; as a denomination of Christians.
Syn: Name appellation; title. See {Name}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
denomination
n 1: a group of religious congregations having its own
organization and a distinctive faith
2: identifying word or words by which someone or something is
called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {appellation},
{designation}, {appellative}]
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