Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A name before one's surname; a first name.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name that precedes the family name or surname; a prenomen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
- transitive verb To name or mention before.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
name that precedes thesurname .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the name that precedes the surname
Etymologies
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Examples
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Please note that "first" name, sometimes called forename or given name, also includes middle names or initials.
ResourceShelf 2009
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Wait, does having the same forename make people related?
More Crazy Rumors: Jonah Nolan to Direct Superman? | /Film 2010
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While Redknapp's spouse is, indeed, called Louise, the video clip of this incident makes it clear Keys was referring to a different woman with the same forename Andy Gray didn't develop his ideas about women in a vacuum, 27 January, page 10, G2.
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The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname.
My Kindle, a review 2010
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Roger Backhouse wonders why his forename has never become really popular, in spite of the intelligence and charisma of some of its holders N&Q, 2 February.
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The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname.
My Kindle, a review 2010
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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the middle son of a wealthy Marxist who gave all three of his sons a Lenin forename and sent them to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, was 26 years old when he pulled off one of the greatest pieces of terrorist theatre of the late 20th century.
Carlos the Jackal plays to the gallery, but this time his courtroom audience has not turned up 2011
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The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname.
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In "Experience" Martin Amis, impressed by his posh classmates at boarding school, looks up his own name: "Martin was the forename of half the England football team; and when I looked up Amis in a dictionary of surnames I was confronted by the following: 'Of the lower classes, esp. slaves.'"
Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review) 2010
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In later life, Francis adopted a third forename, Aloysius.
R. B. Saxe Steve 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word forename
I love the tag for this word.
February 8, 2011