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names

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. name calling, namesnoun

    verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

    "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"

Wikipedia

  1. names

    A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A personal name identifies, not necessarily uniquely, a specific individual human. The name of a specific entity is sometimes called a proper name (although that term has a philosophical meaning as well) and is, when consisting of only one word, a proper noun. Other nouns are sometimes called "common names" or (obsolete) "general names". A name can be given to a person, place, or thing; for example, parents can give their child a name or a scientist can give an element a name.

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  1. names

    Names refer to words or phrases that are used to identify or label individuals, objects, places, or concepts. They play a crucial role in communication and are typically unique to each entity they represent. Names can be given to people at birth, chosen for businesses, assigned to products, or used for geographical locations, among other purposes.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Names

    Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.

Editors Contribution

  1. names

    Plural form and verb form of the word name.

    Their names were so beautiful and we were so grateful to be chose them.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 8, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NAMES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Names is ranked #78040 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Names surname appeared 245 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Names.

    92.2% or 226 total occurrences were White.
    4.9% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'names' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1418

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'names' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1093

Anagrams for names »

  1. manes

  2. manse

  3. means

  4. mensa

  5. Mensa

  6. amens

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of names in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of names in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of names in a Sentence

  1. Ivanka Trump:

    I've heard a lot of names. I've heard Ivanka. How good would Ivanka be ? i think Ivanka would be incredible but it doesn't mean I'd pick her. Because I'd be accused of nepotism even though I'm not sure there's anybody more competent in the world.

  2. Kerri Sackville:

    And I thought what if we actually tweet out the names of these offenders on our own Twitter pages and anybody who feels strongly about it can do it.

  3. Mark Doherty:

    Part of the difficulty this year has been hedge funds crowding into the same names.

  4. Will Dean:

    I will say that it is important to maintain our history and that when we go and start changing monuments and street names that were named after famous Atlantans, famous Georgians, famous Southerners and in some circumstances... famous Americans... you are robbing the next generations of what actually transpired, and it's very serious. It's a very serious offense.

  5. Micah Herndon:

    I feel like if I am not running, then I am doing something wrong with my life, if I get a heat cramp while running or my feet hurt or I am getting exhausted, I just keep saying their names out loud to Micah Herndon. They went through much worse, so I run for them and their families.

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