surname
noun [ C ]
mainly UK uk
/ˈsɜː.neɪm/ us
/ˈsɝː.neɪm/ (US usually last name); (UK also second name)Meaning of surname in English
(Definition of surname from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
surname | American Dictionary
surname
noun
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/ˈsɜr·neɪm/Examples of surname
surname
By examining telephone directories in conjunction with the existing literature on surnames!
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As we saw in section 3, adjective-based surnames differ in some of the paradigm from adjectives.
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Nicknames primarily target given names, though surnames may also serve as their inspiration.
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Table 1 shows that the values obtained by the second method (male surnames only) are higher than the remainder.
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The situation with surnames is slightly more complex because here we cannot derive the inflections directly from the corresponding (possessive) adjectives.
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Perhaps the major significance of the surnames is the simple observation that surnames cannot be mistaken for adjectives in the syntax.
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Less frequently, comments on surnames, and diet or other distinctive habits might also be mentioned.
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The clear signal of co-ancestry exhibited constituted powerful evidence for common origins of men sharing surnames.
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Converted nouns and adjectival surnames thus form systematic gender pairs which are forms of a single lexeme.
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With adjectival surnames then, gender is clearly an obligatory inflectional category.
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To summarize : of the four nominal uses of adjectives outlined in section 4, two, the deadjectival (inflectable) surnames and converted nouns, exhibit systematic gender inflection.
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The figures horizontally to the left of the diagonal represent the numbers of these surnames which are also present in the previous 30-year periods.
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However, the importance of the possessive declension type to us is that it forms the basis of the declension of a large class of surnames derived historically from such adjectives.
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Since cousins are included in the sample, surnames of the same individual grandparents may occur repeatedly and thus isonymy and inbreeding are weighted by these multiple grandchildren.
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The reason for my adopting this approach was the limited range of both forenames and surnames that appear in the registers : there are simply too many possible candidates.
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आडनाव / कुटुंबाचे शेवटी लिहिले जाणारे नाव…
名字, 姓, 姓（せい）…
soyisim, soyadı…
nom [masculine] (de famille), patronyme [masculine], nom de famille…
cognom…
achternaam…
உங்கள் குடும்பத்தின் மற்ற உறுப்பினர்களுடன் நீங்கள் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளும் பெயர், கடைசி பெயர்…
उपनाम, वह नाम जिसे आप अपने परिवार के अन्य सदस्यों के साथ साझा करते हैं, अंतिम नाम…
અટક…
efternavn…
efternamn…
nama keluarga…
der Nachname…
etternavn [neuter], etternavn…
قبائلی, خاندانی نام…
прізвище…
фамилия…
ఇంటిపేరు…
كُنْية…
পদবী, উপাধি, যে নামটি আপনি আপনার পরিবারের অন্যান্য সদস্যদের সাথে শেয়ার করেন…
příjmení…
nama keluarga…
นามสกุล…
họ…
nazwisko…
성…
cognome…
