byname
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From by- + name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.
Noun[edit]
byname (plural bynames)
- (archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
- (archaic, historical) A nickname.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
- (Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.
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Hypernyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
surname
nickname
Verb[edit]
byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)
- (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.
References[edit]
- “byname”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.