last name

Noun

Meaning

the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

last-name

Synonyms

surname family name cognomen name title handle designation tag denomination epithet appellation patronymic forename moniker sobriquet

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Antonyms

forename first name given name true name baptism name street name

Hypernyms

name

Hyponyms

maiden name

Examples

Alex, a young man wearing a blue surgical mask who requested his last name to be withheld out of concerns over privacy, said he returned from vacation in Las Vegas 10 days ago, and now had a sore throat and cough. Source: Internet

Ambrose (1983), p. 18. All of the boys were called "Ike", such as "Big Ike" (Edgar) and "Little Ike" (Dwight); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name. Source: Internet

“All an attacker had to do was create a team, create a user with the payload as their first and last name, and then share a…document with a victim. Source: Internet

And as you heard, both Todd - whose last name is Sherman (ph) - and Theresa have college education. Source: Internet

An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of the Belgian prime minister. Source: Internet

At that time he started to sign his last name as Vega and no longer Veha. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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