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The Terrible or the Great, e.g.
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB change ▪ In women's tennis, they changed their surnames faster than the score. ▪ As part of the marriage settlement he changed his surname to Smith-Cumming, later becoming known as Cumming. ▪ I changed my surname because ...
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A surname or family name is a name added to a given name . In many cases, a surname is a family name and many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name". In the Western Hemisphere , it is commonly synonymous with last name because it is ...
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n. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: family name , cognomen , last name ]
Usage examples of surname.
His Royal and Imperial Majesty, Vaughan the First, surnamed The Terrible, this planet is inviolate soil, bounden into the fiefdom of His Majesty as Duke of Trasimere, and thereby into the Empire.
Alastair, a Craig, a Timothy, and a Graham, three with hyphenated surnames, the fourth with a III suffix.
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, does not, as the name would seem to suggest, have any connection with some early exploratory setback, but is simply a misrendering of the surname of Francois Seguin, an early French trader who settled along the river from which the town takes its name.
What had taken place that afternoon that had caused Roderick to come straight here and write her surname beside her petit non Nonic so gay, so in time For all time!
Surnames survived in Eastthorpe with singular pertinacity, for it was remote from the world, but what was the relationship between the scores of Thaxtons, for example, whose deaths were inscribed on the tombstones, some of them all awry and weather-worn, and the Thaxtons of 1840, no living Thaxton could tell, every spiritual trace of them having disappeared more utterly than their bones.
An immigration officer had recognized her and, while unable to remember her surname, he recalled she had arrived on the first Aer Lingus flight from Dublin on Monday 15th March and was travelling on a French passport.
Because she was in his company, Lady Appleton was grudgingly made welcome, too, but the announcement of her surname brought a deepening of what was already a distinct chill in the atmosphere of the house-room.
Her new surname was certainly apt, Banks thought, as there was definitely something of the gamine about her, a young girl with mischievous charm.
In Shreveport, the headquarters of the Confederate Army of the West, Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, the third of that auspicious surname to be involved, worried and fretted, but could not release General Taylor and his thin Louisiana division to the attack until the scattered grayback Army of the West could be collected from its far-flung posts and concentrated against the advancing Union Army.
Major Kerman, with his immaculate SAS record, and inescapably Jewish surname, was not precisely what he seemed.
He was a Khalif only in name, while Muhammad Bin Ali Amir, surnamed Al-Mansur, was the real ruler or regent till his death in A.
Despite the evocative surname, Dagobert is a genuine descendant of a noble family from Normandy, whose forebears were closely involved in the Languedocian Masonic societies centred on the Marquis de Chefdebien and the Hautpoul family.
To Salvatore Nervi she was Denise Morel, which was a common enough surname for there to be plenty of Morels in France, but not so common that the name set off subconscious alarms.
The Viceroy had the name of his father, Francisco Alvarez de Toledo, the third Count of Oropesa, while his brother Juan had the surname of Figueroa, being that of his mother.
About the middle of the eight century, Constantine, surnamed Copronymus by the worshippers of images, had made an expedition into Armenia, and found, in the cities of Melitene and Theodosiopolis, a great number of Paulicians, his kindred heretics.