name.
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
Meaning & usage
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.
What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
A reputation.
An abusive or insulting epithet.
Stop calling me names!
A person (or legal person).
Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
An authority; a behalf.
Halt in the name of the law!
An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *h₁nómn̥ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name 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, noun, and -onym. False cognate of Japanese 名前 (namae).
To give a name to.
One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
To mention, specify.
He named his demands.
You name it!
To identify as relevant or important
naming the problem
To publicly implicate by name.
The painter was named as an accomplice.
To disclose the name of.
Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
To designate for a role.
My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Spanish ñame, substituting n for the unfamiliar Spanish letter ñ. Doublet of yam.
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