PROPER NAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proper name mean? 

• PROPER NAME (noun)
  The noun PROPER NAME has 1 sense:

1. a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized

  Familiarity information: PROPER NAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPER NAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

proper name; proper noun

Hypernyms ("proper name" is a kind of...):

noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)

 Context examples 

The first letter of a word, especially the first letter of each word in a proper name.

(Initials, NCI Thesaurus)

I shall have no difficulty, I suppose, in finding the house; though Fairfax, I believe, is not the proper name—I should rather say Barnes, or Bates.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Established name (e.g., proper name); Non proprietary names are also known as established names.

(Established Drug Name, Food and Drug Administration)

A familiar or shortened form of a proper name.

(Nickname, NCI Thesaurus)

Johansen he thrashed on the amidships deck the other night, since which time the mate has called him by his proper name.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

EXAMPLE(S): proper name, nickname, legal name

(Person Name, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Henry Crawford had too much sense not to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The first letter of each word in a proper name.

(Initials, NCI Thesaurus)