Definition of name

"name" in the noun sense

1. name

a language unit by which a person or thing is known

"his name really is George Washington"

"those are two names for the same thing"

2. name

a person's reputation

"he wanted to protect his good name"

3. name, gens

family based on male descent

"he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"

4. name, figure, public figure

a well-known or notable person

"they studied all the great names in the history of France"

"she is an important figure in modern music"

5. name

by the sanction or authority of

"halt in the name of the law"

6. name, epithet

a defamatory or abusive word or phrase

"name" in the verb sense

1. name, call, know as, be known as

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

"They named their son David"

"The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"

2. name, identify

give the name or identifying characteristics of refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property

"Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"

"The almanac identifies the auspicious months"

3. name, nominate, make

charge with a function charge to be

"She was named Head of the Committee"

"She was made president of the club"

4. appoint, name, nominate, constitute

create and charge with a task or function

"nominate a committee"

5. name

mention and identify by name

"name your accomplices!"

6. mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer

make reference to

"His name was mentioned in connection with the invention"

7. identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name

identify as in botany or biology, for example

8. list, name

give or make a list of name individually give the names of

"List the states west of the Mississippi"

9. diagnose, name

determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

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Quotations for name

An assumed name. [ French ]

I am the last of my race.
My name ends with me. [ Schiller ]

Frailty, thy name is woman! [ William Shakespeare ]

A good name will shine forever. [ Proverb ]

Oh, no! we never mention her;
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word. [ T. H. Bayly ]

Go back; the virtue of your name
Is not here passable. [ William Shakespeare ]

The honor of a maid is her name. [ William Shakespeare ]

O name forever sad, forever dear! [ Pope ]

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. [ Gay ]

A lost good name is never retrieved [ Gay ]

A bad wound heals; a bad name kills. [ Proverb ]

To your son a good name and a trade. [ Spanish Proverb ]

What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]

Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame. [ Gay ]

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]

He that has an ill name is half hanged. [ Proverb ]

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen.
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. [ Longfellow ]

But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed. [ Shakespeare ]

It is thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]

Friendship is but a name. I love no one. [ Napoleon I ]

He lives who dies to win a lasting name. [ Drummond ]

A good name is better than bags of gold. [ Cervantes ]

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name. [ Scott ]

Ambition has but one reward tor all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name! [ William Winter ]

Oh! never breathe a dead one's name,
When those who loved that one are nigh;
It pours a lava through the frame
That chokes the breast and fills the eye. [ Eliza Cook ]

The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. [ William Shakespeare ]

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made.
To turn a penny in the way of trade. [ Cowper ]

And teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

I would rather make my name than inherit it. [ Thackeray ]

Give a dog an ill name and his work is done. [ Proverb ]

One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]

He left a name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale. [ Johnson ]

I fled, and cried out Death!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded Death. [ Milton ]

A good name is better than precious ointment. [ Bible ]

Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name. [ Cowley ]

Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. [ Spurgeon ]

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name,
And not a flower that grows beneath the moon,
But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale
Of thee, my love. [ Barry Cornwall ]

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind;
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame! [ Pope ]

He alone can claim this name, who writes
With fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]

He's born in a good hour who gets a good name. [ Proverb ]

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]

Take away my good name, and take away my life. [ Proverb ]

Repentance is but another name for aspiration. [ Beecher ]

I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]

May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name.
And glorify what else is damned to fame. [ Richard Savage ]

To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame.
The power of grace, the magic of a name. [ Campbell ]

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. [ Richter ]

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

These earthly god-fathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. [ William Shakespeare ]

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in it. [ Byron ]

When your name is up you may lie abed till noon. [ Proverb ]

My name is Twyford; I know nothing of the matter. [ Proverb ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

A virtuous name is the only prize
Which queens and peasants' wives contest together. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

Got the ill name of augurs because they were bores. [ Lowell ]

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [ Horace ]

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name. [ Ovid ]

How in the name of thrift doth he rake this together? [ William Shakespeare ]

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. [ Bible ]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. [ J. G. and A. W. Hare ]

Good advice can be given, a good name cannot be given. [ Turk. Proverb ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, not your name. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God. [ Cowper ]

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed,
And the heart's secret was at once confessed? [ Abraham Coles ]

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. [ Lucan ]

A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven? [ D. L. Moody ]

Named softly as the household name of one whom God had taken. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! [ Voltaire ]

The last taste of things gives them the name of sweet or sour. [ Proverb ]

Every vice has a cloak, and creeps in under the name of virtue.

On the earth, the Infinite has sowed His name in tender flowers. [ Richter ]

Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked. [ Cowper ]

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. [ William Shakespeare ]

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Those wanting wit, affect gravity and go by the name of solid men. [ Dryden ]

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. [ Pliny ]

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? [ Locke ]

Experience is the name men give to their follies, or their sorrows. [ A. de Musset ]

Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. [ Jeffrey ]

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of little children. [ Thackeray ]

Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none. [ Carlyle ]

A person with a bad name is already half hanged, saith the old proverb. [ Whipple ]

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. [ Bovee ]

I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. [ Bible ]

Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.

Resignation is the name of the angel who carries most of our soul's burdens, [ J. L. Basford ]

The first step to a good name is a good life; and the next is good behaviour. [ Proverb ]

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. [ Zimmermann ]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. [ Bible ]

I do beseech you - chiefly that I may set it in my prayers - what is your name? [ William Shakespeare ]

Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]

They used to think they were doing God a favor to print His name in capital letters. [ Richter ]

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted. [ William Pinkney ]

There is no death. The thing that we call death is but another, sadder name for life. [ Stoddard ]

Her face is like the Milky Way in the sky, - A meeting of gentle lights without a name. [ Sir John Suckling ]

There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate. [ Bulwer ]

There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship. [ Burns ]

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

What the light of your mind pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. [ Carlyle ]

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. [ Emerson ]

The legacy of heroes - the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example. [ Beaconsfield ]

Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. [ Horace ]

In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A great name is like an eternal epitaph engraved by the admiration of men on the road of time. [ E. Souvestre ]

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. [ T. Jefferson ]

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee - devil! [ William Shakespeare ]

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. [ Bacon ]

Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. [ Simms ]

Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. [ Simms ]

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice and both are acts of the will. [ Epictetus ]

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. [ Colton ]

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves; and perhaps that is the reason of it. [ William Penn ]

Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonyme for the Devil. [ Macaulay ]

A grandam's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother; they are as children but one step below. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. [ Schiller ]

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

The Omnipotent has sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars; but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. [ Richter ]

Chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception of our minds, and only a compendious way of speaking. [ Bentley ]

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. [ Goldsmith ]

God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. [ William Shakespeare ]

None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I. to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith! [ Artemus Ward ]

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. [ Quintilian ]

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When a woman pronounces the name of a man but twice a day, there may be some doubt as to the nature of her sentiments; but three times! [ Balzac ]

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]

Experience is of no ethical value, it is simply the name we give our mistakes. It demonstrates that the future will be the same as the past. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. [ Hosea Ballou ]

An honorable name or a good reputation is an excellent protection against wrong-doing: we fear to compromise it more through vanity than virtue.

Charity balls are a curse. The name is a subtle argument in favor of their existence, but if ever anything belied its name, it is a charity ball. [ Geo. F. Hall ]

We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jeffersonian vulgarity. [ Bishop Henry C. Potter ]

Intellectual fairness is often only another name for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind, just as love of truth is sometimes a fine phrase for temper. [ J. Morley ]

Mother! The holy thoughts and chastened memories that cluster around this name, can never be so well expressed as in the calm utterance of the name itself. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. [ Bacon ]

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. [ Emerson ]

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. [ Swift ]

No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness. [ Carlyle ]

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. [ Bruyere ]

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]

Had he unjustly fallen, your name had then been stained to latest times with foul reproach; and what more dreadful, more to be abhorred, than to be known with infamy forever? [ Paterson ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men. [ Joubert ]

The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the forcing the letter of the law against the equity is the most insupportable. [ L'Estrange ]

We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint. [ Emerson ]

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]

A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]

It is quite as easy to give our children musical and pleasing names as those that are harsh and difficult; and it will be found by the owners, when they have grown to knowledge, that there is much in a name. [ Locke ]

If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]

The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. [ Voltaire ]

What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions, discoveries, enterprises, and ideas which have illustrated the ages, and marked eras in human progress. [ E. de Girardin ]

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of popularity is shame: if thou be once up, beware: from fame to infamy is a beaten road. [ Quarles ]

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. [ B. R. Haydon ]

The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]

Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity. [ Cicero ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]

Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]

A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]

The young man may applaud the negligent and pusillanimous instructor; but when that man, no longer young, suffers the result of that neglect and pusillanimity, it is well if a better spirit had taught him to mention the name of that instructor without bitter execration. [ F. Wayland ]

Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten. [ Langford ]

Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name? The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

name in Scrabble®

The word name is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters name:

MEAN
(27)
MANE
(27)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word name

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The 174 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In name

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name in Words With Friends™

The word name is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters name:

MANE
(48)
MEAN
(48)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word name

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The 188 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In name

MANE
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Words containing the sequence name

Word Growth involving name

Shorter words in name

am

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