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name

  • noun
  • nām

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

Example

“I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.”

Other meanings

  1. An abusive or insulting epithet.

    “Stop calling me names!”

  2. A person (or legal person).

Example sentences

  • “Do you go by any other names?”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

  • “Numbers were not supposed to be given names.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “I don't see my name on the schedule.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Old English "nama".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “name” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.