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anthroponyms

anthroponyms is the plural of anthroponym.

Meaning of anthroponym

Noun

anthroponym (plural anthroponyms)

  1. The name of a person, especially a surname.
    • If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for...(Can we date this quote?), Oksana Neher, Liudmyla Yursa, “THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY IN THE URBANONYMY OF UZHHOROD”, in ORBIS LINGUARUM, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, page 192

Questions about anthroponyms

What is anthroponyms the plural of?
Anthroponyms is the plural of anthroponym.

Words near anthroponyms in the dictionary

  1. anthroponotic
  2. anthroponotically
  3. anthroponym
  4. anthroponymic
  5. anthroponymous
  6. anthroponyms
  7. anthroponymy
  8. anthropopathetic
  9. anthropopathetically
  10. anthropopathia
  11. anthropopathic

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