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 Dictionary entry overview: What does names mean? 

• NAMES (noun)
  The noun NAMES has 1 sense:

1. verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

  Familiarity information: NAMES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

name calling; names

Context example:

sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me

Hypernyms ("names" is a kind of...):

calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)

 Context examples 

Pink, Purple and Blue will receive more scientific names when written about in academic papers.

(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)

Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messengers all over the land to find out new ones.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers' names and connections.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

While five products were named, the TGA have yet to announce the names of the other nine products taken off the shelves.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced the proposed names of four chemical elements recently discovered by scientists around the world.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory MCI (ADCS-ADL MCI) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire ADCS-ADL MCI Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

There are many variants and many names.

(Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Their names are Biddle, Hayward, and Moffat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he passed the window of Renfield's room, the patient began to rate him from within, and called him all the foul names he could lay his tongue to.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

However, I now wrote a comforting letter to Mrs. Micawber, in our joint names, and we both signed it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)