aftername
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A designation which comes after a name, similar to, yet not necessarily equivalent to…
A designation which comes after a name, similar to, yet not necessarily equivalent to one's last name
- 'Oh, Lord kens that; we dinna mind folk's afternames muckle here, they run sae muckle into clans.'
- Not only did the saints have all these afternames but the heroes and ancestors had twice as many of an identical pattern. And soon I observed that the first names were composed of the same elements as the afternames.
- In England, in the Middle Ages, an individual sometimes used alternative afternames, that of his place of residence, his trade, or that of his master instead of that of his father.
The neighborhood
- antonymforename
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for aftername. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA