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named

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //neɪmd//

Having a name.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a name.

    The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.

  2. 2

    An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of namesimple past and past participle of name

    Near-synonym: called (verb)

    Her dog is named Lucky.

    My nephew is named after his maternal grandfather.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).