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last-naming

last-naming is the present participle and gerund of last-name.

Meaning of last-name

Verb

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

  1. (rare) To address by last name.
    • In some schools or businesses, inferiority is underscored by last-naming alone. Superiors receive [title + last name], but inferiors are called by their last names alone. If novels and mystery stories are to be believed, in England servants were often last-named without titles, as were students. As...1982, Elaine Chaika, “[Style of speech] The United States, a case in point”, in Language: The Social Mirror, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 49

Questions about last-naming

What is last-naming the present participle and gerund of?
Last-naming is the present participle and gerund of last-name.

Words near last-naming in the dictionary

  1. last-minute
  2. last-name
  3. last-named
  4. last-nameless
  5. last-names
  6. last-naming
  7. last-time
  8. last-to-last
  9. last-wordism
  10. lastability
  11. lastable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: last-naming (page history and authors); last-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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