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Cognomen Moderate

Cognomen has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

"Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"

"Henry's nickname was Slim"

2

the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

3

Surname.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
appellation name
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
maiden name
Rhyming Words
men amen omen x men vimen tumen yamen comen semen armen somen elmen women hymen damen limen simen yemen ramen nomen
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