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forename
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forename
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Only the main forename you declare will be printed on the licence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forename

Forename \Fore"name`\, n. A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
--Selden.

Forename

Forename \Fore"name`\, v. t. To name or mention before.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forename

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).

Wiktionary
forename

n. A name that precedes the surname.

WordNet
forename

n. the name that precedes the surname [syn: first name, given name]

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.