n. 1 identification, identifier, ID, mark, marker, earmark, tag, ticket, sticker, stamp, imprint, hallmark, brand, Brit docket The label shows the weight, composition, and price of the contents A proper shipping label should show both source and destination. 2 name, denomination, designation, appellation, nickname, epithet, sobriquet, classification, characterization, description It is difficult to give a label to the kind of novels she writes 3 trade mark, trade name, brand, logo, mark Many supermarket chains market products under their own label
v. 4 identify (as), mark, tag, earmark, ticket, stamp, hallmark, imprint, brand, Brit docket In those days, every liberal was labelled a communist Prepared food packages must be labelled with their ingredients. 5 name, denominate, designate, call, term, dub, classify, categorize, pigeon-hole, class, characterize, describe, portray, identify, Colloq US peg We cannot label Voltaire either spiritualist or materialist