Namefellow
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person with whom one shares a surname or given name, or both. poetic, rare
"But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes / Might find them, lay those knightly name-fellows, / One sick with grief of heart and sleepless, one / With heart of hope triumphant as the sun"
Example
More examples"But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes / Might find them, lay those knightly name-fellows, / One sick with grief of heart and sleepless, one / With heart of hope triumphant as the sun"
Etymology
From name + fellow.
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