Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of surname.

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

  • noun See surname.

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  • noun Archaic spelling of surname.

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Examples

  • “But it must have some sirname — so must the lady — She cannot reside in my house, yet be without a name.”

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Its funny how the people get my sirname spelling wrog: may name is Wienand :

    Beach Light final & Drity Beauty ads william wray 2007

  • Sec. card, drivers license, Etc. in the US format using my sirname.

    the name game 2003

  • Rob for some auld ill-will that they hae at him and his sirname.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Manetho also, who lived about the time of Nebuchadon – Asser, Asser being a Syriac word usually applied as a sirname to the kings of that country, as Teglat

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

  • Once, however, a sense of this possibility so far overcame her judgment, as to prompt an inquiry for the sirname of Ellena; but the mention of Rosalba had checked all further conjecture.

    The Italian 2004

  • Edgar had (being but a Saxon) and by sundry such meanes, as he chiefly in this Empire did put in proofe and vse triumphantly, whereupon his sirname was Pacificus, most aptly and iustly.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • I never learned his sirname though I met him continually for the next year and shared his studio with him.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • Orkney and Shetland had been added to certain royal donations, by a marriage with an heiress of the sirname of Speire.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • His very sirname had an influence upon the good will of his superstitious and devoted followers.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

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