Surnames is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURNAMES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SURNAME, to give the family name to, also SIRNAME
• give a surname to
NOUN:
• a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a forename or given name
• a name, title, or epithet added to a person's name, especially one indicating their birthplace or a particular quality or achievement
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to give a family name to

Words related to SURNAMES

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How to use SURNAMES in a sentence

• Nothing is more common than to mistake surnames when we hear them carelessly uttered for the first time.
• Viracocha, under any and all his surnames, is always described as white and bearded, dressed in flowing robes and of imposing mien.
• The names are varied, so as to introduce the same family under all sorts of different surnames.
• He gave the names, the surnames, and other details, of the two rascals, and ended by demanding justice.
• The surnames Carlyle and Carlile still preserve the better orthography.
• A few steps towards the adoption of surnames were taken even before the Conquest.
• But the practice of giving surnames grew up only very gradually in the countries of Europe.
• It is often easier to see how we got our Christian names than how we got our surnames.
• In England surnames were not used until nearly a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and then only by kings and nobles.
• Once a man got a surname it was handed on to all his children, as surnames are to-day.
• It is interesting to see in how many different ways people got their surnames.
• The first surnames in England were those which the Norman nobles who came over at the Conquest handed on from father to son.
• Sometimes these names were used in the French of the Normans, and we get two quite different surnames, though they really in the first place had the same meaning.
• Many surnames have come down from nicknames given to people because of their good or bad qualities.
• A very great number of surnames are really only old Christian names either with or without an ending added to them.
• One very interesting way of making surnames was to take them from the trade or occupation of the founder of the family.
• Surnames as well as Christian names were often taken from the names of saints.
• They were at first Christian names, and then came to be passed on as surnames.
• Perhaps the most peculiar origin of all belongs to some surnames which seem to have come from oaths or exclamations.
• This chapter shows only some of the ways in which we got our Christian names and surnames.
• London has always been the central home of anarchy under various big surnames.
• Surnames were not introduced until the eleventh century, and it is only since that period that genealogy has become possible.
• Then, as the surnames came out, as they spread out in a crowd around us, there was silence.
• His brother Aaron took the name Alexander not thinking how it looked for two brothers of the same parents to have different surnames.
• This caused many of them, she claims, to drop or change their names to Spanish or American surnames.
• Compound surnames are entered under the first part of the name.

Similar words containing SURNAME without suffix s

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