names

Noun

name (plural names)

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
   • I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

   Synonyms:

   proper name

2. A reputation.
   • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
     Is the immediate jewel of their souls.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
3. An abusive or insulting epithet.
   • Stop calling me names!
4. A person (or legal person).
   • They list with women each degenerate name.1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
   • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
6. An authority; a behalf.
   • Halt in the name of the law!

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