forename

IPA: fɝˈɛneɪm

noun

  • A name that precedes the surname.

verb

  • To assign (someone) a first name.
  • Synonym of prenominate
  • To appoint in advance.
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Examples of "forename" in Sentences

  • Wait, does having the same forename make people related?
  • In later life, Francis adopted a third forename, Aloysius.
  • Please note that "first" name, sometimes called forename or given name, also includes middle names or initials.
  • The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.'"

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