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Definition of Surname

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

Definition of Surname

1. n. A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

2. v. t. To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Definition of Surname

1. Noun. A name that indicates to which family a person belongs, normally following that person’s given name(s) in Western culture, and preceding it in Eastern. ¹

2. Verb. To give a '''surname'''. ¹

3. Verb. To call by a '''surname'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surname

1. to give a family name to [v -NAMED, -NAMING, -NAMES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surname

Literary usage of Surname

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare's Life and Work: Being an Abridgement, Chiefly for the Use of by Sidney Lee (1900)
"The poet's surname ... The poet cannot be proved to have acknowledged any finality as to the spelling of his surname. It is certain that he wrote it ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"I come from a town in the south of Spain, where there are several families of the surname of Barnes; and as the same name also prevails in this country, ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Pleading and on the Parties to Actions and the Forms by Joseph Chitty (1809)
"4 *••••" * * the said surname of D hath always hitherto been called and ... or called, or known by the surname of E, as by the said bill is supposed, ..."

4. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"Christian Name and surname—Middle Name. Each individual should be designated by the Christian name and surname with the addition of the initial, at least, ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1822)
"The will then contained a proviso, that when any of the premises thereby devised should vest in any person not bearing the surname of ..."

6. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"And see in confirmation of this, infra, the next note, assigning the reason why a defendant may lie described by a second surname laid under an aliat. — 9. ..."

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