name
/neɪm/ noun A1- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. · I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.· What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
- A reputation.
- An abusive or insulting epithet. · Stop calling me names!
- A person (or legal person).
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- An authority; a behalf. · Halt in the name of the law!
- An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
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The little old woman took the slate from her nose, and having read the words on it, asked, “Is your name Dorothy, my dear?”
And it’s a very pretty name, don’t you think?
Diana says she never saw the beat of me for hitting on fancy names for places.
Anybody can think of a name like that.
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