🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

apelación

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ah-peh-la-syon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appeal/əˈpiːl/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La organización hizo una apelación por donaciones."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A serious or urgent request, typically to the public.

    "The charity made an appeal for donations to help the victims of the disaster."
As verb
  1. 1

    To make a serious or urgent request.

    "She decided to appeal to the community for assistance."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'appeal' originates from the Latin 'appellare', meaning 'to call upon'. It evolved through Old French 'appeler' before entering Middle English, where it retained the meaning of invoking or requesting attention.

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