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n. (alternative spelling of placename English)
Usage examples of "place-name".
Eastern Polynesian story has place-names suggesting Samoan and Fijian backgrounds.
It made a stark contrast to the landing-site map he and Scotty had tacked up in their hangar at the spaceport, where all the official place-names of the Outland were scribbled over with one or more of the nicknames Sulu heard on his various journeys.
The Italians are doing their best to revive the classical place-names, where they have been lost, and occasionally the incautious traveller is much misled.
In this history it appears only in such place-names as Gimli revealed to his companions.
Most of these surnames had obvious meanings in the current language, being derived from jesting nicknames, or from place-names, or (especially in Bree) from the names of plants and trees.
They altered the names that they heard in the same way, if they were made of elements mat they recognized, or if they resembled place-names in the Shire.