surname

Speech parts

1. surname - Noun

2. surname - Verb

Meaning

A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.

To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nickname epithet sobriquet byname family name last name Clinton Monroe name family term style title call label
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Antonyms

name break neglect disperse scatter substantive
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Hypernyms

name

Hyponyms

maiden name

Phrases with the word

enter the surname name and surname first name and surname occupational surname common surname western surname

Derivatives

surnamed surnaming

Anagrams

Mansure Muresan unsmear

Examples

They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname. Elie Wiesel

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. Rachel Weisz

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. Antonio Villaraigosa

It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon. Julian McMahon

Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart. Tom Robbins

Close letter words and terms

surmounting surmullet surmulot surname of the father surnameless surnamer