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Name

//neɪm// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of North American English. abbreviation, alt-of
Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
  3. 3
    by the sanction or authority of wordnet
  4. 4
    A reputation.

    "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord Is the immediate jewel of their souls."

  5. 5
    a language unit by which a person or thing is known wordnet
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  1. 6
    An abusive or insulting epithet.

    "Stop calling me names!"

  2. 7
    a defamatory or abusive word or phrase wordnet
  3. 8
    A person (or legal person).

    "They list with women each degenerate name."

  4. 9
    family based on male descent wordnet
  5. 10
    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."

  6. 11
    a well-known or notable person wordnet
  7. 12
    An authority; a behalf.

    "Halt in the name of the law!"

  8. 13
    a person's reputation wordnet
  9. 14
    An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
  10. 15
    An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability. UK
Verb
  1. 1
    To give a name to. ditransitive

    "One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting."

  2. 2
    determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis wordnet
  3. 3
    To mention, specify. transitive

    "He named his demands."

  4. 4
    identify as in botany or biology, for example wordnet
  5. 5
    To identify as relevant or important transitive

    "naming the problem"

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  1. 6
    give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of wordnet
  2. 7
    To publicly implicate by name. transitive

    "The painter was named as an accomplice."

  3. 8
    mention and identify by name wordnet
  4. 9
    To disclose the name of. transitive

    "Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor."

  5. 10
    make reference to wordnet
  6. 11
    To designate for a role. transitive

    "My neighbor was named to the steering committee."

  7. 12
    give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property wordnet
  8. 13
    To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct. Westminster-system, transitive

    "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."

  9. 14
    assign a specified (usually proper) name to wordnet
  10. 15
    create and charge with a task or function wordnet
  11. 16
    charge with a function; charge to be wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *h₁nómn̥ 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 Nynorsk nabn, namn (“name”), Swedish namn (“name”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō, “name”). Indo-European Cognates: Latin nōmen (“name”) (whence Spanish nombre (“name”)), Russian имя (imja, “name”), Ashkun nām (“name”), Kamkata-viri nom, num (“name”), Prasuni nom, nëmë (“name”), Waigali nām (“name”), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man, “name”). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi (“name”) and Hungarian név (“name”). Doublet of nomen and noun.

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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

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