"last-name" meaning in All languages combined

See last-name on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: last-names [present, singular, third-person], last-naming [participle, present], last-named [participle, past], last-named [past]
Etymology: Denominal verb of last name. Etymology templates: {{denominal verb|en|last name}} Denominal verb of last name Head templates: {{en-verb}} last-name (third-person singular simple present last-names, present participle last-naming, simple past and past participle last-named)
  1. (rare) To address by last name. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-last-name-en-verb--1~woTst Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Denominal verb of last name.",
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    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: first-name"
        },
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          "ref": "1982, Elaine Chaika, “[Style of speech] The United States, a case in point”, in Language: The Social Mirror, Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 49:",
          "text": "In some schools or businesses, inferiority is underscored by last-naming alone. Superiors receive [title + last name], but inferiors are called by their last names alone. If novels and mystery stories are to be believed, in England servants were often last-named without titles, as were students. As late as the 1950s, in the staid New England high school I went to, boys were last-named alone, but girls were [Miss + last name]. In some schools or social circles today, mutual last-naming by peers is a sign of intimacy or affection.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 September, Peter H[artley] Gott, “Forced Familiarity”, in Connecticut Medicine: The Journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society, volume 47, number 9, New Haven, Conn.: Connecticut State Medical Society, →ISSN, page 579, columns 1–2:",
          "text": "The most useful test of whether unsought informality presents problems is this: when practitioners feel comfortable being first-named by their patients. If you expect to be called Doctor or Nurse so-and-so, reciprocate the respect by last-naming your patients.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Sarah Conrad Sours, “Mad Manners: Courtesy, Conflict, and Social Change”, in Ann W[illiams] Duncan, Jacob L[ynn] Goodson, editors, The Universe is Indifferent: Theology, Philosophy and Mad Men, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: The Lutterworth Press, published 2017, →DOI, →ISBN, Part 1 (Business Ethics), pages 55–56:",
          "text": "By last-naming those whom I am expected to last-name and by answering to my first name when those who are authorized to first-name me do so and by insisting that those unauthorized to first-name me use my last name, I submit to and enforce the distribution of status that drives naming conventions.",
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        "(rare) To address by last name."
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          "text": "The most useful test of whether unsought informality presents problems is this: when practitioners feel comfortable being first-named by their patients. If you expect to be called Doctor or Nurse so-and-so, reciprocate the respect by last-naming your patients.",
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          "text": "By last-naming those whom I am expected to last-name and by answering to my first name when those who are authorized to first-name me do so and by insisting that those unauthorized to first-name me use my last name, I submit to and enforce the distribution of status that drives naming conventions.",
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