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to-named

to-named is the simple past and past participle of to-name.

Meaning of to-name

Verb

to-name (third-person singular simple present to-names, present participle to-naming, simple past and past participle to-named)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Synonym of byname, to give a byname to.
    • Brian Kennedy, to-named Boraimh, or Taxer.1775, William Buchanan, An Inquiry into the Genealogy and Present State of Ancient Scottish Surnames..., page 49
    Synonyms:
    byname, to give a byname to

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Questions about to-named

What is to-named the simple past and past participle of?
To-named is the simple past and past participle of to-name.

Words near to-named in the dictionary

  1. to-infinitive
  2. to-infinitives
  3. to-morrow
  4. to-morrows
  5. to-name
  6. to-named
  7. to-names
  8. to-naming
  9. to-night
  10. to-nights
  11. to-nite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to-named (page history and authors); to-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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