name

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

Noun

  1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
    • I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
    • What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
    • That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...

    Synonyms: proper name

  2. A reputation.
    • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord Is the immediate jewel of their souls. - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
    • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot. - 1902,...
    • And David won a name for himself. - 1952, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13
  3. An abusive or insulting epithet.
    • Stop calling me names!
  4. A person (or legal person).
    • They list with women each degenerate name. - 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson,...
    • p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names Later British psychologists interested in this topic...
    • Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico? - 2008 edition...
  5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
    • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the...
  6. An authority; a behalf.
    • Halt in the name of the law!
    • We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and...
  7. An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
  8. An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

Origin

PIE word *h₁nómn̥ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Cognates Germanic Cognates: Yola naame, name, naume (“name”), North Frisian Naam, neem, noome, nööm (“name”), Saterland Frisian Nome, Noome (“name”), West Frisian namme (“name”), Alemannic German Naame, namä, noame, nomu, nàmund (“name”), Cimbrian naamo, name, nåm (“name”), Dutch naam, name (“name”), German Nahme, Name (“name”), German Low German Naam (“name”), Luxembourgish Numm (“name”), Mòcheno nu'm (“name”), Vilamovian noma (“name”), Yiddish נאָמען (nomen, “name”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål navn (“name”), Icelandic nafn (“name”), Norwegian...

Forms

names nyem

Synonyms

name nomenclature proper name

Hypernyms

term

Hyponyms

adoption name baptismal name big name binomial name birth name botanical name byname chosen name christen name Christian name code name codename common name confirmation name deadname domain name facet name family name filename file name first name forename given name honor name

Related

alias anonymous appellation cognomen namely nom de guerre nom de plume nominal pseudonym

Derived

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Noun Entry 2

  1. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.

Forms

names ñame namé

Synonyms

cush-cush greater yam name nomenclature proper name

Hypernyms

term

Hyponyms

given name middle name surname full name maiden name alias anonym appellation autonym byname code name cognomen designation epithet hypocorism moniker nickname nom de guerre nom de plume pen name pet name pseudonym sobriquet stage name

Verb

  1. To give a name to.
    • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
    • I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!' - 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz:
    • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. - 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter...
  2. To mention, specify.
    • He named his demands.
    • You name it!
    • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
  3. To identify as relevant or important
    • naming the problem
  4. To publicly implicate by name.
    • The painter was named as an accomplice.
  5. To disclose the name of.
    • Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
  6. To designate for a role.
    • My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

    Synonyms: nominate

  7. To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
    • I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him. - 2013 July 10, John (Speaker of...

Origin

From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Cognate with West Frisian neame (“to name; to mention”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).

Forms

names naming named

Synonyms

bename designate dub nominate

Related

christen epithet moniker sobriquet

Derived

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