call
/kɔl/ v [T] (NAME)Definition
› to give someone or something a name, or to know or address someone by a particular name: They can’t decide whether to call their new baby Carol or Alice. His name is Anthony, but everyone calls him Tony. call someone names › To call someone names is to use rude or insulting words to describe someone: Politicians waste a lot of time calling each other names and criticizing each other.
(Definition of call v (NAME) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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