noun
definition
The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
definition
That which is referenced.
Examples of referents in a Sentence
It is for this reason that the expressions toner and new paper cannot provide referents for it.
The empirical referents of these concepts have to be specified on the basis of theorizing.
In due course, the database will be expanded to include a section on modern poetry and its classical referents.
At first, identifying the material referents of phenomenal concepts might seem like a standard scientific problem.
These categories and their members have referents in the universe of discourse.
In the future, we will detach the referents of the words from the directions in which the agents move.