Suggested or implied a meaning beyond the literal or primary definition; carried an associated emotional or cultural meaning.
Past tense of 'connote,' from Medieval Latin 'connotatus,' meaning the action of marking or associating additional meanings together with the primary definition has occurred.
In the 1950s, calling someone 'gay' primarily connoted 'happy,' but by the 1980s it had been semantically flipped—same word, completely different historical journey, showing how society literally rewrites language over decades!
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