signifying

[ sig-nuh-fahy-ing ]

/ ˈsɪg nəˌfaɪ ɪŋ /

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Origin of signifying

First recorded in 1955–60; signify + -ing¹

OTHER WORDS FROM signifying

un·sig·ni·fy·ing, adjective

Words nearby signifying

significs, signifié, signified, signifier, signify, signifying, sign-in, signing, signiory, sign language, sign manual

How to use signifying in a sentence

David Foster Wallace even named a chapter in his tome Brief Interviews with Hideous Men “Signifying Nothing.”
James Franco and Scott Haze on 'The Sound and the Fury' and Gawker 'Outing' Them As A 'Couple'|Marlow Stern|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a cosmic rout, signifying the end of an order, even the death of Spanish football as it is currently played.
Dutch Treat: The Netherlands Sinks Spain In World Cup 2014|Tunku Varadarajan|June 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The city roiled with place names signifying race trouble: Bensonhurst, Howard Beach, the Central Park Jogger, Crown Heights.
The Cost: What Stop and Frisk Does to a Young Man’s Soul|Rilla Askew|May 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So instead, Republican senators have launched an attack on Hagel filled with sound and fury but signifying very little.
Anti-Hagel GOP Effort Turns Farce|Peter Beinart|February 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST

If the Arabs had just accepted Zionism (signifying their own dispossession), then World War II might have turned out differently.
Wilf’s Colonialism Denial|Yousef Munayyer|April 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It is not simply acquiescing in that Covenant in the heart, but signifying that acquiescence in a positive service.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham
The prophet sends chains to divers kings, signifying that they must bend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The acceptance of a bill is the signifying by the drawee that he has assented to the drawer's order, and must be in writing.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Bearo, first signifying the grove itself, might easily come to mark the shelter which the grove afforded.
Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853|Various
These streams are also variously interpreted as signifying the four evangelists, and the four rivers of paradise.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow