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Rename Common

Rename has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

An instance of renaming.

"The team decided to rename the project after their latest success."

Verb
1

assign a new name to

"Many streets in the former East Germany were renamed in 1990"

2

name again or anew

"He was renamed Minister of the Interior"

3

To give a new name to.

"The librarian decided to rename the old section after the famous author who donated her collection."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
name

Origin

The word rename is formed by combining the prefix re- with name to mean naming something again or under a different title. It entered English as a straightforward compound of these two existing words without any shift in their core meanings.

Rhyming Words
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