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proper names

proper names is the plural of proper name.

Meaning of proper name

Noun

proper name (plural proper names)

  1. A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.
    • A proper name, when it occurs in a proposition, is always, at least according to one of the possible ways of analysis (where there are several), the subject that the proposition or some subordinate constituent proposition is about, and not what is said about the subject.1950, Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics
    Synonyms:
    proper noun[Appendix:Glossary, name

Questions about proper names

What is proper names the plural of?
Proper names is the plural of proper name.

Words near proper names in the dictionary

  1. proper jobs
  2. proper left
  3. proper motion
  4. proper motions
  5. proper name
  6. proper names
  7. Proper Nangalisan
  8. proper noun
  9. proper nounhood
  10. proper nouns
  11. Proper Puguis

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