Surname is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SURNAME in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give the family name to, also SIRNAME
• give a surname to
• To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
• furnish with or call by a surname
NOUN:
• a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a forename or given name
• A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
• An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
• the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member\'s given name)
• family 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 SURNAME

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Words that contain SURNAME

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How to use SURNAME in a sentence

• Their mother was Cosa degli Alessandri, a granddaughter of Alessandro degli Albizzi, who first adopted the new surname.
• From his grandfather, Isaac Bailey, a freeman, he had derived the surname Bailey.
• I did not know my surname, though I heard my mother call my father John.
• For a moment he was unable to remember her surname.
• Now Michelangelo always signed his own letters Michelangelo Buonarroti, although he addressed the members of his family by the surname of Simoni.
• Meantime his wife Frogertha bore a son FRODE, who afterwards got his surname from his noble munificence.
• This brand consisted of a cross, with two stars above, one below, the initial letter of his given name on the left, and that of his surname on the right.
• Catholics and Protestants unite in his praises, and have conferred upon him the surname of the Delight of Mankind.
• It is Ulysses Virginia Lee, and in addition, the surname Smith.
• The word has descended to our own times in the surname of the family Shipster.
• He received the surname of Africanus, and was one of the most respected and beloved of Romans.
• He was admired, too, for refusing any surname taken from his conquests, and only wearing the laurel wreath of a victor in the Senate.
• Her surname I forget, but her Christian name was Marie.
• The historian may for convenience omit the surname thus created, but in Russia it would be a great breach of decorum to do so.
• Suetonius observes that all those of the family of Caesar who bore the surname of Caius perished by the sword.
• These men were led by a young man of Armenian birth, John by name, the son of Thomas whom they used to call by the surname Gouzes.
• Lord Strafford was his godfather, and named him by his own surname.
• There were many smiths, and John the Smith and Tom the Smith easily became John Smith and Tom Smith, and thus had a surname to pass on to their families.
• In imitation of his brother, he assumed the surname of ASIATICUS.
• The surname of Africanus, which he had inherited by adoption, had now been acquired by his own exploits.
• The first name of the other was Tomaso, but I have forgotten his surname.
• Guyon was, however, raised to the rank of pasha, and got the surname of Kurschid.
• But I felt no nearer to him than you feel to the Archangel who bears that name and no surname.
• Sefton had brought his young foreign wife home, now more than thirty years ago, the people of Riversborough had called her Madame, giving to her no other title or surname.
• Lucius Valerius Potitus, and Marcus Manlius, who afterwards obtained the surname of Capitolinus, were elected consuls.
• It was very, very difficult to believe that he was a tramp concealing his surname.
• Al-Marzubani received his surname of Al-Marzubani because one of his ancestors bore the name of Al-Marzuban, a designation applied by Persians to great and powerful men only.
• He was a man unquestionably worthy of the high surname which he bore, even had it begun with him.
• William Tuktusna comes from the South, and possesses both Christian name and surname, which is unusual for an Eskimo.
• At the first opportunity the absence of the man of letters offered, they raised a statue to him, conferring on our POMPONIUS the fond surname of ATTICUS.
• In the Russian annals, he has received the surname of Great.

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