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Whole name   /hoʊl neɪm/   Listen
Whole name

noun
1.
A word that names the whole of which a given word is a part.  Synonym: holonym.






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"Whole name" Quotes from Famous Books



... more he looked at the name, the more he asserted, that it was his name. Then I named each letter of that name, asking him, whether he saw that it was the named letter, and when he answered in the affirmative to all letters, I urged him to spell the whole name. And he spelt the whole name, and it was "Kaiser." This German name means ...
— Secret Enemies of True Republicanism • Andrew B. Smolnikar

... your word of honor?" said Lorand, gazing deeply into my eyes; "on that honor by which you just now so proudly appealed to me? Look, the whole Aronffy name is borne by you alone. Do you undertake it for the honor of that whole name, not to mention this secret ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai

... which these stories are taken was written in 1785 by Rudolf Erich Raspe, a German of many talents who took up his residence in England, there really was a Baron Munchausen who served the author as a model. His whole name was Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Munchausen, a German, of course, but serving in the Russian army. After several campaigns against the Turks, he retired from the army and amused himself by telling awful whoppers about his bravery as a soldier ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... Mary, "you need not write the whole name. You can write the first letter—that will be enough. R. stands for Rollo, L. for Lucy, H. for Henry, J. for James, ...
— Rollo's Museum • Jacob Abbott

... whole name is Carol Vane. Pretty, isn't it? Vane, she says, was her mother's name, and a nice sort of person she seems to have been. Poor Carol herself must have had a terrible time of it. There was no possibility of doubting a word of her story, she told it all so simply ...
— The Missionary • George Griffith



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