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Given name   /gˈɪvən neɪm/   Listen
noun
Name  n.  
1.
The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class. "Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
2.
A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts. "His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
3.
Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction. "What men of name resort to him?" "Far above... every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come." "I will get me a name and honor in the kingdom." "He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin." "The king's army... had left no good name behind."
4.
Those of a certain name; a race; a family. "The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities."
5.
A person, an individual. (Poetic) "They list with women each degenerate name."
Christian name.
(a)
The name a person receives at baptism, as distinguished from surname; baptismal name; in western countries, it is also called a first name.
(b)
A given name, whether received at baptism or not.
Given name. See under Given.
In name, in profession, or by title only; not in reality; as, a friend in name.
In the name of.
(a)
In behalf of; by the authority of. " I charge you in the duke's name to obey me."
(b)
In the represented or assumed character of. "I'll to him again in name of Brook."
Name plate, a plate as of metal, glass, etc., having a name upon it, as a sign; a doorplate.
Pen name, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom de plume.
Proper name (Gram.), a name applied to a particular person, place, or thing.
To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations.
To take a name in vain, to use a name lightly or profanely; to use a name in making flippant or dishonest oaths.
Synonyms: Appellation; title; designation; cognomen; denomination; epithet. Name, Appellation, Title, Denomination. Name is generic, denoting that combination of sounds or letters by which a person or thing is known and distinguished. Appellation, although sometimes put for name simply, denotes, more properly, a descriptive term (called also agnomen or cognomen), used by way of marking some individual peculiarity or characteristic; as, Charles the Bold, Philip the Stammerer. A title is a term employed to point out one's rank, office, etc.; as, the Duke of Bedford, Paul the Apostle, etc. Denomination is to particular bodies what appellation is to individuals; thus, the church of Christ is divided into different denominations, as Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, etc.


verb
Given  v.  P. p. & a. from Give, v.
1.
(Math. & Logic) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.
2.
Disposed; inclined; used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.
3.
Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.
Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. (Colloq.)





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"Given name" Quotes from Famous Books



... families names alternated from father to son. For example, Thorolf Erlandsson (Thorolf the son of Erland) would name his son after his own father, and the boy would be known as Erland Thorolfsson. A daughter was known by her given name and her father's, as Sigrid Erlandsdatter. In the case of the farm being of sufficient importance for a surname the name might be added, as "Elsie ...
— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
... imitation of this process, Lucius, the hero of the romance, transforms himself, not as he had intended into a showy winged creature, but into the animal which has given name to the book; for throughout it there runs a vein of racy, homely satire on the love of magic then prevalent, curiosity concerning which had led Lucius to meddle with the old woman's appliances. "Be you ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater
... model-woman found food for thought, and the next time they were together dazzled him with her princes and cardinals and personal little anecdotes of courts and kings. She also showed him dainty missives, superscribed, "My dear Loraine," and ended "Most affectionately yours," and signed by the given name of a real live queen on a throne. And he marvelled in his heart that the great woman should deign to waste so much as a moment upon him. But she played him cleverly, making flattering contrasts and comparisons between ...
— The God of His Fathers • Jack London
... nothing else when the paragon of stenographers, Miss McGoun, suddenly left him, though her reasons were excellent—she needed a rest, her sister was sick, she might not do any more work for six months. He was uncomfortable with her successor, Miss Havstad. What Miss Havstad's given name was, no one in the office ever knew. It seemed improbable that she had a given name, a lover, a powder-puff, or a digestion. She was so impersonal, this slight, pale, industrious Swede, that it was vulgar to think of her as going to an ordinary home to eat hash. She was a perfectly oiled and enameled ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... calendar, and the books of the buttery afford the appointed proof of residence; it being presumed that, if neither bread, butter, pastry, beer, or even toast and water (which is charged one farthing), are entered on the buttery books in a given name, the party could not have been resident that day. Hence the phrase of 'eating one's way into the church or to a doctor's degree.' Supposing, for example, twenty-one days' residence is required between ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... isn't. His given name is Jonas, but I hated to call him Jonas, an' on a bridal trip, too. He might jus' as well have had a more romantic-er name, if his parents had 'a' thought of it. So I determined I'd give him a better one, while we was on our journey, anyhow, an' I changed his name to ...
— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton
... Akut had given the boy a name of his own choosing, since he could not master the man given name of Jack. Korak is as near as it may be interpreted into human speech. In the language of the apes it means Killer. Now the Killer rose upon the branch of the great tree where he had been sleeping with his back braced against the stem. He stretched his lithe young muscles, the moonlight filtering ...
— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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