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What is a referent?

What is a referent? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
  2. That which is referenced.
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They were significantly younger than the unexposed referent group, but they had the same education level as the aforementioned referent group.
But as viewers, we see the destruction of a curiously depeopled space, in which buildings, glaciers, mountains, and cities are reduced to rubble without any human referent.
The structural nature of language removes the written word from a direct relationship with its physical referent.
In a probe recall experiment, a word with a thematized referent was a better recall probe than a word with a non-thematized referent.
Following the example of referent groups like U2, Noir Desir as well as Radiohead and the Doors, he started to jot down literature and songs.
But in the following passage the syntax is such that the referent of the word lap is ambiguous.

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