Mononym

Quick meaning: Mononym is a noun meaning A single name or term by which a person, thing, etc., is known.

Meaning

A single name or term by which a person, thing, etc., is known.

More Meanings

1. A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.

Example Sentences

As the heroine, the tall, thin actress who calls itself Capucine is as crystalline and icy as her elegant mononym.

The academic I already knew by reputation; they went by the mononym Farah and were one of the foremost authorities on Ilari poetry.

After usage has created consensus on a mononym, it becomes possible to treat the accepted (preferred) forms in a terminographic glossary.

The atlas and axis have special names, but most of the vertebra, like the ribs, are merely numbered ; among the arteries, the aorta only has a mononym ;

Word Forms

• mononyms

Synonyms for mononym

Depending on context, synonyms include monomial, mononom, mononomial, uninym.

Antonyms for mononym

Common opposites include polynym.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mononymy, uninym, idionym, autonym, orthonym, nickname.

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