surname
IPA: sˈɝneɪm
noun
- (obsolete) Synonym of epithet, an additional name, particularly those derived from a birthplace, quality, or achievement.
- (obsolete) Synonym of nickname, an additional name given to a person, place, or thing, a byname.
- The name a person shares with other members of that person's family, distinguished from that person's given name(s); a family name.
- (Classical studies) The cognomen of Roman names.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A clan.
verb
- (transitive) To give a surname to.
- (transitive) To call by a surname.
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Examples of "surname" in Sentences
- The origin of the surname is German.
- Is the surname the final arbiter here
- The paternal line follows the surname.
- The Indian version of the surname is used.
- The first line sorts the link by the surname.
- The following people have the surname of Caddy.
- Niskanen is the surname of the following persons.
- The patronymic surname Gilbertson is also common.
- The surname of the author of the letter was withheld.
- Doar is the surname of an aristocratic family in the southern United States.
- Even Bev Perdue, whose friggin 'surname is French for "lost," probably won't.
- His small stature was a bitter irony for someone whose surname translates as "Tall."
- * In both instances, the surname is an anglicized derivation of the Irish surname Ó Tighearnaigh.
- (15-16 January 2010, Part 2) * In both instances, the surname is an anglicized derivation of the Irish surname Ó Tighearnaigh.
- To this day Quisling's surname is shorthand for a politician willing to sell out his own country to the worst predators, if it looks like that might save his own interests.
- The 20-year-old Christophe Lemaitre (whose surname translates as 'The Master') recently became the first white sprinter to break the 10-second barrier with 9.98 sec in Valence.
- Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu).
- John may be the reason that their surname is a brand name among political junkies, but "when he and I travel to the Middle East together, I'm cognizant of the fact that I'm traveling with royalty," John says.
- The Central Election Commission also registered as a presidential candidate a resident of Ivano-Frankivsk region, Vasyl Protyvsikh (whose surname translates as "Against Everybody"), who changed his surname from Humeniuk in early October 2009.
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