signature
Forms
- Plural
- signatures
- Comparative
- more signature
- Superlative
- most signature
- present (v1)
- signature
- past (v2)
- signatured
- past participle (v3)
- signatured
- present participle
- signaturing
- 3rd person singular
- signatures
Definitions
1.A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
2.The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
3.An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
- IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.
4.Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
1.Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
- Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
- The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
- Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
1.To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3434
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix.
Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).