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surnamed

surnamed is the simple past and past participle of surname.

Meaning of surname

Verb

surname (third-person singular simple present surnames, present participle surnaming, simple past and past participle surnamed)

  1. (transitive) To give a surname to.
  2. (transitive) To call by a surname.
    • “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66

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Adjective

surnamed (not comparable)

  1. Bearing a surname.
    • It may have been that this strange yearning of Pierre for a sister, had part of its origin in that still stranger feeling of loneliness he sometimes experienced, as not only the solitary head of his family, but the only surnamed male Glendinning extant.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Words formed from surnamed

Questions about surnamed

What does surnamed mean?
Surnamed means bearing a surname.
What is surnamed the simple past and past participle of?
Surnamed is the simple past and past participle of surname.
What part of speech is surnamed?
Surnamed is an adjective.

Words near surnamed in the dictionary

  1. surmullet
  2. surmullets
  3. surmulot
  4. surmulots
  5. surname
  6. surnamed
  7. surnameless
  8. surnames
  9. surnamey
  10. surnaming
  11. surnatant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surnamed (page history and authors); surname (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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