Surname Synonyms

sûrnām
The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. family-name
  2. cognomen
  3. last-name
  4. patronymic
  5. agnomen
  6. appellation
  7. eponym
  8. patronym
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. patronymic

Words Related to Surname

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Surname Sentence Examples

  • His success in conquering Sicily earned him the surname of "the Great."

  • Under what circumstances, and by whose selection, the surname was attached to a king, is obscure.

  • The elder of these, succeeding as 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859), became in 1833 2nd Earl de Grey, in right of his maternal aunt, and assumed the surname of de Grey; he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1841-44).

  • He earned the surname of "Pious" by banishing his sisters and others of immoral life from court; by attempting to reform and purify monastic life; and by showing great liberality to the church.

  • His father was Cassius Apronianus, governor of Dalmatia and Cilicia under Marcus Aurelius, and on his mother's side he was the grandson of Dio Chrysostom, who had assumed the surname of Cocceianus in honour of his patron the emperor Cocceius Nerva.

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