1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {connoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {connoting}.] [See {connotate}, and {cote}.] 1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. [1913 Webster] Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute. [1913 Webster] The word "white" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute "whiteness." --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
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