A student looks up the word 'motley' in a good dictionary and finds the following information included in the entry:
1. The parti-colored attire of a court jester
2. A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.
What type of information is this?
etymology
part of speech
denotation
pronunciation
The word 'motley' does not seem to describe any of words but denotation. Denotation means translating of a sign to its meaning, and from what the entries look like, denotation is the best answer.
