named

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /neɪmd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪmd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪmd

Adjective

named (not comparable)

1. Having a name.

   Antonym: unnamed

   Hyponyms: aforenamed, above-named, ill-named, last-named

   Coordinate term: called (adjective)

   The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.

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

Derived terms

• named parameter
• named person
• named pipe

Translations

having a name

• Chickasaw: holhchifo
• Czech: pojmenovaný m
• Dutch: genaamd (nl)
• Finnish: nimetty (fi)
• French: nommé (fr)
• Greek: ονοματισμένος (el) (onomatisménos), ονοματιζόμενος (onomatizómenos), ονόματι (el) (onómati)
• Indonesian: bernama (id)
• Norwegian: navngitt
• Turkish: adlı (tr), isimli (tr)

See also

• called

Verb

named

1. simple past and past participle of name

   Near-synonym: called (verb)

   Her dog is named Lucky.

   My nephew is named after his maternal grandfather.

Anagrams

• admen, ad-men, Amend, Edman, Mande, maned, amend., Maden, Mandé, menad, deman, Medan, amend