From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfore‧name/ˈfɔːneɪm$ˈfɔːr-/noun[countable]British Englishformalsomeone’sfirst nameSYNChristian name, →surnameExamples from the Corpusforename•Only themainforenameyoudeclarewill beprintedon thelicence. ...
Forename Forename Fore"name`, n. A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name. --Selden. Forename Forename Fore"name`, v. t. To name or mention before. --Shak. Meaning of Forename fromwikipedia
In the aforementioned example, "Smith" is the surname. 23 In many cultures, the forename is chosen based on a variety of reasons including religious beliefs, family traditions, or personal preferences. Parents often put thought into the meaning or significance of a forename before naming their ...
In the case of personal names, their everyday familiarity makes it hard to move beyond a taken-for-granted understanding of their use and meaning within the gendered social world. My aim in the present article is to break down this functional fixedness about personal names and gender and ...
The meaning "a famous person" is from 1610s (man of name "man of distinction" is from c. 1400). The sense of "one's reputation, that which is commonly said of a person" is from c. 1300. As a modifier meaning "well-known," it is attested by 1938. In the name of "in behalf...
(Forename) cognate: Given that there is no specific definition of a cognate when referring to names, we offer the following meaning of this term as employed in our study. As defined by Hanks et al. ([1990] 2006), in this research a cognate referred to the same name but as used in ...