proper name
nounDefinitions
A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually…
A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.
- We might clarify some of the points made in this chapter by comparing paradigm proper names with degenerate proper names like "the Bank of England".
- Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for proper name. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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