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named

/neɪmd/ adjective A2
  1. Having a name. · The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.
  2. An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.
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Spencer said your place was named Green Gables.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 21 · C1
It told me that Drebber had already applied for the protection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 84 · B2
I named it Violet Vale.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 106 · C1
But Diana named the Birch Path.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 106 · C1

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