Some words have an actual concrete item or concept (idea, action, or state of being) that the word refers to--its referent. The referential meaning of a word is its definition.See, for example, the sloth at left.
Some words refer to prevaricated things such as Sloth, the Manga character in the image at left.
Some words refer to abstract concepts, such as "sloth" (as in, laziness, represented in the image below at left).
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