Namefellow

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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