connote
verb /kəˈnəʊt/
/kəˈnəʊt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they connote | /kəˈnəʊt/ /kəˈnəʊt/ |
| he / she / it connotes | /kəˈnəʊts/ /kəˈnəʊts/ |
| past simple connoted | /kəˈnəʊtɪd/ /kəˈnəʊtɪd/ |
| past participle connoted | /kəˈnəʊtɪd/ /kəˈnəʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form connoting | /kəˈnəʊtɪŋ/ /kəˈnəʊtɪŋ/ |
- connote something (of a word) to suggest a feeling, an idea, etc. as well as the main meaning
- Very soon ‘Third World’ came to connote poverty.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConnote is used with these nouns as the subject:- term
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin connotare ‘mark in addition’, from con- ‘together with’ + notare ‘to note’ (from nota ‘a mark’).