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noun
- Any word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- 1904, w:L. Frank Baum, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
- : So good a man as this must surely have a .
- Reputation.
- 1604, w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, w:Othello, Othello, III-iii ,
- : Good in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html
- 1952, w:Old Testament, Old Testament, Revised Standard Version, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13,
- : And David won a for himself.http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1
- (computing): A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
- An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
verb (nam, ing)
- (transitive) To give a name to.
- 1904: w:L. Frank Baum, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz " I will the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- He named his demands.
- You it!
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- naming the problem
- (transitive) To publicly implicate.
- The painter was named as an accomplice.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
Etymology: (term, nama, lang=ang), from (proto, Germanic, namon), from (proto, Indo-European, nomn-).Germanic cognates: Old High German (term, namo, lang=goh) (Modern German (term, Name, lang=de)), Old Saxon namo (Dutch (term, naam, lang=nl)), Old Frisian noma, Gothic (term, sc=Goth, , lang=got), Old Norse (term, nafn, lang=non) (Swedish (term, namn, lang=sv)).Indo-European cognates: Latin (term, nomen, nÅmen, lang=la) (French (term, nom, lang=fr)), Greek (term, sc=polytonic, á, tr=onoma, lang=el), Persian (term, sc=fa-Arab, ÙÙ, tr=ním, lang=fa), Old Irish (term, ainm, lang=sga) (Cornish (term, hanow, lang=kw)), Sanskrit (term, sc=Deva, ààà, tr=nÄma, lang=sa), Avestan nama, Old Church Slavonic (term, sc=Cyrl, Ñ, tr=imÄ, lang=cu) (Russian (term, sc=Cyrl, Ñ, tr=ímja, lang=ru)), Tocharian A (term, íom, lang=xto) and Tocharian B (term, íem, lang=txb).
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