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namesaking

namesaking is the present participle and gerund of namesake.

Meaning of namesake

Verb

namesake (third-person singular simple present namesakes, present participle namesaking, simple past and past participle namesaked)

  1. (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.

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Questions about namesaking

What is namesaking the present participle and gerund of?
Namesaking is the present participle and gerund of namesake.

Words near namesaking in the dictionary

  1. names the day
  2. names to conjure with
  3. namesake
  4. namesaked
  5. namesakes
  6. namesaking
  7. namescape
  8. namescapes
  9. namesclop
  10. namesclops
  11. namesearch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: namesaking (page history and authors); namesake (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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