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COREFERENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coreferent mean?
• COREFERENT (adjective)
The adjective COREFERENT has 1 sense:
1. related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction
Familiarity information: COREFERENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction
Context example:
two expressions are coreferent if they denote the same object or individual
Similar:
related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)
Derivation:
coreference (the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent)
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