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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective given or having a specified name. Contrasted to unnamed.
  • adjective bearing the author's name. Opposite of anonymous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a name.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of name.

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