proper name

NOUN
  1. a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized
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  • Grant Smith is an onomastician at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, who studies the branch of linguistics dedicated to proper names. Archive 2007-08-12
  • The carelessness of copyists, the use of "sigla", contractions for proper names, and the frequency of transcription, led naturally to much confusion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Female interviewees were, once again, resolutely vague or "forgetful" when it came to the proper names of European officials or settlers, although they had little trouble recalling their nicknames in Shangaan. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • No proper names and no plurals. The Sun
  • He has also much fertility in epithets; these being fitted to their objects properly and naturally have the force of proper names, as when he gives to the several gods each some proper designation, so he calls Zeus the “all-wise and high thundering,” and the Sun, Hyperion, “advancing aloft,” and Apollo, Phoebus, that is, shining. Essays and Miscellanies
  • Maybe the way to get the US to convert to metric is to start using the proper name for the "English" weights and measures system: "British Imperial Units". NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch
  • That author gave brown in lower case and Betty in upper case; and, in default of evidence to the contrary, it seems best to go along with the view that Betty is here a proper name.
  • Smaller chunks of ice without proper names do get classified into categories.
  • This planet, which doesn't yet have a proper name, is an 'exoplanet', one orbiting a star outside our solar system. Times, Sunday Times
  • The proper name for Matthew's condition is hyperkinetic syndrome.
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