noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Opposite this protest message hangs a photograph with a very different connotation .
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On Hong Kong this year it took on a slightly different connotation .
negative
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It was also a positive term with none of the negative connotations of Nonconformist or Dissenter.
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In recent years multimedia has taken on a negative connotation in the computer industry.
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If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons.
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Others know only the negative connotations of the word.
■ VERB
carry
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But thinness, as opposed to slimness, also carries connotations of weightlessness and emptiness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Bermuda" with its connotations of fun and sun
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For most people "motherhood" has a very positive connotation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A whole group of connotations, arising from our knowledge of the drug culture, then settles on the music.
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But thinness, as opposed to slimness, also carries connotations of weightlessness and emptiness.
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Care must be exercised however as certain colours have specific connotations which may be important if colour codes are used.
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I spoke, in that context, of the connotations of the posse, of the hunt.
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Its connotations are all wrong and will be studied later.
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Literacy will continue to depend upon the power to decipher words and to decode their connotations.
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The portrait is an endlessly interesting example, a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
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With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.