nameplate

English

Etymology

name +‎ plate

Noun

nameplate (plural nameplates)

1. A plate or plaque inscribed with a name.

   the nameplate on a locomotive

   the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door

   • 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:

     No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

   • 1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:

     By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.

2. The masthead of a newspaper.

Alternative forms

• name plate

Derived terms

• nameplated
• nameplating

Translations

A plate or plaque inscribed with a name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 名牌 (zh) (míngpái), 姓名牌 (xìngmíngpái)

• Dutch: naambord (nl) n
• Finnish: nimikilpi, nimikyltti
• French: plaque (fr) f (de nom)
• German: Namensschild (de) n
• Irish: ainmchlár m
• Japanese: 名札 (ja) (なふだ, nafuda), ネームプレート (nēmupurēto)
• Romanian: placă (ro) f (de nume)
• Russian: табли́чка (ru) f (tablíčka) (с и́менем), именна́я табли́чка f (imennája tablíčka)
• Swedish: namnskylt (sv) c

Anagrams

• plane-mate