named

Having a name.

Adjective

  1. Having a name.
    • The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.

    Antonyms: unnamed

    Coordinate Terms: called

  2. An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.

Related

called

Derived

beforenamed forenamed namedness named parameter named person named pipe nonnamed undernamed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of name
    • Near-synonym: called (verb)
    • Her dog is named Lucky.
    • My nephew is named after his maternal grandfather.

    Synonyms: called