"slave name" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: slave names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} slave name (plural slave names)
  1. A name or surname given to a person held in slavery, or passed down to their descendants.
    Sense id: en-slave_name-en-noun-EurNklX5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26
  2. (by extension, derogatory) Any name imposed on one by others rather than chosen by them for themselves (but generally excluding names bestowed by one's parents). Tags: broadly, derogatory
    Sense id: en-slave_name-en-noun-m0wjNuhv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: government name

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1995, Jewell P. Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau, page 164",
          "text": "They might not know which name to call—my slave name, Marie Laveau, or the unknown African name that should've been mine.",
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          "ref": "2019, Patricia San José Rico, Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction, page 164",
          "text": "His point is to let white people know you don't accept your slave name.",
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          "ref": "2021, Marcellas Reynolds, Supreme Actresses: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Hollywood, page 171",
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          "ref": "1993, George Alec Effinger, Michael D. Resnick, Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, page 23",
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