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- connote something
(of a word 词 to suggest a feeling, an idea, etc. as well as the main meaning 意味着；暗示；隐含 Very soon ‘Third World’ came to connote poverty. 很快，“第三世界”开始意味着贫困。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConnote is used with these nouns as the subject:- term
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin connotare ‘mark in addition’, from con- ‘together with’ + notare ‘to note’ (from nota ‘a mark’).