Name

/neɪm/ · noun

Meaning

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
2. A reputation.
3. An abusive or insulting epithet.
4. A person (or legal person).
5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
6. An authority; a behalf.
7. (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
8. (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

Example Sentences

I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.

That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

[…] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.

So good a man as this must surely have a name.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

And David won a name for himself.

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

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Word Forms

• names
• nyem
• naming
• named
• ñame
• namé

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