<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning</li><li>the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning</li><li>something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described</li><li>the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied</li></ul>