One way to think of a word’s denotative meaning is as its dictionary definition.

Connotation of a word is its actual meaning as defined in the dictionary definition.

The connotative meaning of a word is more variable, figurative, and subjective than its denotative meaning

Denotative meaning is heavily tinted by cultures and refer to the emotional associations that a word

The meaning of a word that you find in a dictionary is its（）。

A.abstractmeaning
B.connotativemeanin
C.denotativemeaning
D.approximatemeaning正确答案：denotativemeaning