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Definition of Proper name
1. Noun. A noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized.
Definition of Proper name
1. Noun. A proper noun. ¹
2. Noun. A phrase that names a specific object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proper Name
Literary usage of Proper name
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A proper name is demanded by the context: perhaps the Wady "Asul, S. of Jerusalem.
Asan (Jos., xv, 42, etc.; Juda): poss. ..."
2. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"The shipping papers did not contain the proper name, class, identification, total
quantity, and the words "Cargo Aircraft Only. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"1) is the first proper name of our Bible. (3) Whatever may have been the origin
of the proper name " Adam," its use here seems to be derived from and based ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"courant (now usually a proper name), courier (only as a proper name). nice, a.
1. See FASTIDIOUS, PARTICULAR, FINE, DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS, SCRUPULOUS, ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"... The proper name of the Western Horned Owl. '—In a paper in ' The Auk" for ...
present in a 1 proper name for the Western Horned Owl of North America. ..."
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