front name
front name noun: a person's given name.
Noun
front name (plural front names)
- A person's given name.
- “Well, the front name I goes by nowadays is Dick,” said he, “and as I ain’t got no partic’ler use for no more name, jes’ call me Dick. […] ”1897 March, Montague Stevens, “‘Front Name’ Dick”, in The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXII, Number 5, The Cosmopolitan Press (1897), page 553
- Because, yesterday everybody said ‘Dr. Lavendar.’ I didn’t think Doctor could be your front name. All the other people had front names.1905–6, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, The Awakening of Helena Richie, Harper & Brothers (1906), page 97
Examples of front name in a sentence
- As a friend... purely as a friend, I ask you...what's your front name?"1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 185:
- His opening line inevitably was 'girl what's your front name'.1981 January 27, Alicia Velasquez Angelo, “Careless Bilingual Student May Tell It Like It Isn't”, in Modesto Bee:
Forms of front name
| plural | front names |
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Questions about front name
- What does front name mean?
- Front name means a person's given name.
- How do you use front name in a sentence?
- As a friend... purely as a friend, I ask you...what's your front name?"
- What part of speech is front name?
- Front name is a noun.
- What is the plural of front name?
- The plural of front name is front names.
Words near front name in the dictionary
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