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surnaming

surnaming is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about surnaming

What is surnaming the present participle and gerund of?
Surnaming is the present participle and gerund of surname.

Words near surnaming in the dictionary

  1. surname
  2. surnamed
  3. surnameless
  4. surnames
  5. surnamey
  6. surnaming
  7. surnatant
  8. surnatants
  9. surnay
  10. surnays
  11. surnominal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: surnaming (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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