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named names

named names is the simple past and past participle of name names.

Meaning of name names

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity.
    • "Pr'ythee, peace, man," said Avenel; "what need of naming names, so we understand each other? [...]"1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John...

Questions about named names

What is named names the simple past and past participle of?
Named names is the simple past and past participle of name names.

Words near named names in the dictionary

  1. namechecks
  2. namechild
  3. named
  4. named after
  5. named and shamed
  6. named names
  7. named one's poison
  8. named parameter
  9. named parameters
  10. named people
  11. named person

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