name
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
A reputation.
An abusive or insulting epithet.
“Stop calling me names!”
A person (or legal person).
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To identify as relevant or important
“naming the problem”
To publicly implicate by name.
“The painter was named as an accomplice.”
Etymology
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”).
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NAME at a glance
NAME has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (N 1 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #207 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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