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first-names

first-names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of first-name.

Meaning of first-name

Verb

first-name (third-person singular simple present first-names, present participle first-naming, simple past and past participle first-named)

  1. (rare) To address (someone) by first name.
    • Physicians are first-named only by close family, friends, and colleagues in the United States. […] First-naming has extended itself to one group who formerly were sacrosanct: teachers and professors. […] Since it is, indeed, a privileged patient who first-names his or her physician, one cannot help...1982, Elaine Chaika, “Style of speech”, in Language: The Social Mirror, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, sections 18 (Summons, greetings, address) and 21 (The United States, a...
    Synonyms:
    Christian-name

Questions about first-names

What is first-names the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
First-names is the third-person singular simple present indicative of first-name.

Words near first-names in the dictionary

  1. first-mover disadvantage
  2. first-mover disadvantages
  3. first-name
  4. first-named
  5. first-nameless
  6. first-names
  7. first-naming
  8. first-nighter
  9. first-nighters
  10. first-of-its-kind
  11. first-of-its-kinds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: first-names (page history and authors); first-name (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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