name

/neɪm/ v [T]

Definition

› to give a name to someone or something: They decided to name their first child Benjamin. › To name is also to choose or to state publicly: The president has yet to name a new ambassador to Russia.

(Definition of name v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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