<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order</li><li>a person who asks or applies for something</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>designative; descriptive</li><li>tending toward or serving for the assigning of names: the appellative function of some primitive rites</li><li>pertaining to a common noun</li></ul>