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FAMILY NAME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family name mean?
• FAMILY NAME (noun)
The noun FAMILY NAME has 1 sense:
1. the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
Familiarity information: FAMILY NAME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cognomen; family name; last name; surname
Hypernyms ("family name" is a kind of...):
name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family name"):
maiden name (a woman's surname before marriage)
Context examples
In some cultural traditions the family name comes first.
(Person Name, NCI Thesaurus)
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