One pair of expressions that share the same denotation would be ‘snake’ and ‘reptile’ because they are related to each other, yet have different meanings. For example, the animal ‘snake’ is considered a reptile, however a reptile is not limited to snakes only as there are other reptiles like alligators, crocodiles, lizards, etc. Although the words share the same denotation, they are used differently when speaking. When speaking of reptiles you are talking about a broad generalization, but when you are speaking of snakes it is more specific. They are associated but are not necessarily tied to each other both ways. Another example would be ‘Red’ and ‘Color’. They have the same denotation but not the same meaning, while red is always going to be a color, it is not always certain that when you say color, red is associated as color is a broad term which has several categories.

This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.