name
A1Frequent NGSL-1UK /neɪm/US /neɪm/
Meaning
noun
a word or words that a particular person, animal, place or thing is known by
“What's your name?”
verb
to give a name to somebody/something
“name somebody/something (after somebody), He was named after his father (= given his father's first name).”
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“My name is Kim Nam-joon, also known as RM, the leader of the group BTS.”
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“every night and that group of friends is what became the company known today as H the name came from the computer in the movie 2001 Space odess how we thought that”
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“During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.”
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