Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A name before one's surname; a first name.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name that precedes the family name or surname; a prenomen.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A name that precedes the family name or surname; a first name.
- v. To name or mention before.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the name that precedes the surname
Etymologies
- fore- + name (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Please note that "first" name, sometimes called forename or given name, also includes middle names or initials.”
“Wait, does having the same forename make people related?”
“Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the middle son of a wealthy Marxist who gave all three of his sons a Lenin forename and sent them to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, was 26 years old when he pulled off one of the greatest pieces of terrorist theatre of the late 20th century.”
“While Redknapp's spouse is, indeed, called Louise, the video clip of this incident makes it clear Keys was referring to a different woman with the same forename Andy Gray didn't develop his ideas about women in a vacuum, 27 January, page 10, G2.”
“The author sorting depends on how the file has been made; sometimes it sorts by forename and sometimes by surname.”
“Roger Backhouse wonders why his forename has never become really popular, in spite of the intelligence and charisma of some of its holders N&Q, 2 February.”
“In "Experience" Martin Amis, impressed by his posh classmates at boarding school, looks up his own name: "Martin was the forename of half the England football team; and when I looked up Amis in a dictionary of surnames I was confronted by the following: 'Of the lower classes, esp. slaves.”
“In later life, Francis adopted a third forename, Aloysius.”
“Harry S truman is not a full name its a forename and surname and a middle initial.”
“Nasif, I don't know whether you are British but your forename suggests that you are Muslim.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forename’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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A Name
Nouns meaning a name
nomen, binomen, cognomen, appellation, epithet, agnomen, designation, surname, alias, autonym, eponym, anonym and 18 more...
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Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
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Name-Calling
tag, sobriquet, nickname, appellation, designation, title, handle, moniker, alias, surname, cognomen, label and 22 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu I love the tag for this word. Feb 8, 2011