name

About 189.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A reputation.
3. noun An abusive or insulting epithet.

   Stop calling me names!

4. noun A person (or legal person).
5. noun Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
6. noun An authority; a behalf.

   Halt in the name of the law!

7. noun An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
8. noun An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

Similar words

epithet describe identify refer cite mention nominate constitute distinguish appoint

Often followed by

of and is was for to in the from

Word family

named namer namers names naming