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cognominals

cognominals is the plural of cognominal.

Meaning of cognominal

Noun (1)

cognominal (plural cognominals)

  1. A name (sometimes especially one's cognomen or family name).
    • […] Mr. Diedrich Knickerbocker, a name not yet ranked with Hume, and Gibbon, and Robertson, very fortunately for those who have an antipathy to Dutch cognominals, but which, we venture to foretel, will be held in esteem,1821, The Edinburgh Monthly Review, page 232

Noun (2)

cognominal (plural cognominals)

  1. (obsolete) One bearing the same name.
    • And therefore although it be not denied that ſome in the water doe carry a juſtifiable reſemblance to ſome at the Land, yet are the major part which beare their names unlike; nor doe they otherwiſe reſemble the creatures on earth, then they on earth the conſtellations which paſſe under animall...1646, Thomas Browne, “That All Animals of the Land, Are in Their Kinde in the Sea”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 170

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Questions about cognominals

What is cognominals the plural of?
Cognominals is the plural of cognominal.

Words near cognominals in the dictionary

  1. cognometric
  2. cognometrics
  3. cognomina
  4. cognominal
  5. cognominally
  6. cognominals
  7. cognominate
  8. cognominated
  9. cognominates
  10. cognominating
  11. cognomination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cognominals (page history and authors); cognominal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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