proper name

noun

Definitions

  1. 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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