أستاذ محمد اثر دراستي في الجامعة قسم اللغة الانجليزية وآدابها :
Words can have different meanings in different contexts. These meanings may be literal or figurative. The literal meaning of a word is its usual or exact sense. The figurative meaning of a word refers to its use in an imaginative way to create an effect
اذن فالمعنى الحقيقي أو الظاهري يترجم بliteral meaning
والمعنى المجازي يترجم بfigurative meaning
وبهذا فان الكلمة في اللغة الانجليزية لها :
direct meaning
indirect meaning
Words have definite meanings. When you read or hear the word crowd you picture in your mind a large group of people. The meaning of the word crowd is its denotation - its literal meaning, the definition you would find in a dictionary
Many words also have a connotation, or implied meaning, that is associated with a word - an indirectly suggested meaning. For example, like crowd, the word mob also refers to a large group of people. But the word mob has a different connotation
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