Noun
1. earnest or urgent request;
"an entreaty to stop the fighting""an appeal for help""an appeal to the public to keep calm"2. attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates;
"his smile was part of his appeal to her"3. (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial;
"their appeal was denied in the superior court"4. request for a sum of money;
"an appeal to raise money for starving children"