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The 'John' of 'John Smith'
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forename
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Word definitions for forename in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forename \Fore"name`\, n. A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name. --Selden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from fore- + name (n.). The equivalent of Latin praenomen . Old English had forenama . Middle English had fore-named in the sense "mentioned before" (c.1200).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the name that precedes the surname [syn: first name , given name ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A name that precedes the surname.
Usage examples of forename.
If only, she ruminated tiredly, it would turn out to be as easy as convincing her newly pubescent daughter to drop the unsuitable and whimsically inappropriate forename Fitzwinkle.
Her legal forename was Victoria, but the other teens all called her Wednesday.
He used the forenames Tiberius Claudius possibly a freed slave named for the old Emperor, but more likely some minor tribal dignitary, honoured as an ally at some past date.