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name sign

name sign is the alternative form of namesign.

Meaning of namesign

Noun

namesign (plural namesigns)

  1. A special sign in sign language that uniquely identifies an individual person.
    • One way that deaf Taiwanese assign namesigns is by producing the established sign for a surname and adding the appropriate gender marker for the intended referent […]1998, Ceil Lucas, Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communities, page 72
    Synonyms:
    sign name

Forms of name sign

pluralname signs

Questions about name sign

What is name sign the alternative form of?
Name sign is the alternative form of namesign.

Words near name sign in the dictionary

  1. name plates
  2. name reaction
  3. name reactions
  4. name server
  5. name servers
  6. name sign
  7. name signs
  8. NAME syndrome
  9. name tag
  10. name tags
  11. name tape

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Adapted from Wiktionary: name sign (page history and authors); namesign (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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