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/kog-noh-muhn/US // kɒgˈnoʊ mən //UK // (kɒɡˈnəʊmɛn) //

名词解释,名词,名词术语,名字

Related Words

handle处理,办理,把握,处理方式 title职称,标题,名称,题目 epithet绰号,称谓,称呼,词条 surname姓氏,姓 moniker单词,单名,单字,单元 nickname外号,混名,别名

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural cog·no·mens, cog·nom·i·na [kog-nom-uh-nuh]. /kɒgˈnɒm ə nə/.
- : a surname.
- : any name, especially a nickname.
- : the third and commonly the last name of a citizen of ancient Rome, indicating the person's house or family, as “Caesar” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”Compare agnomen.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms

epithet绰号,称谓,称呼,词条 handle处理,办理,把握,处理方式 moniker单词,单名,单字,单元 nickname外号,混名,别名 surname姓氏,姓 title职称,标题,名称,题目

Examples

The question has frequently been asked who was intended by the cognomen Saint Gris?
The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment.
By adopting the cognomen of Habrodiaitos, or high-liver, he brought upon himself the nickname of Rhabdodiaitos, or brush-man.
He has been called a Sphinx, and well deserves the cognomen, for no man shows less upon his face the emotions of his heart.
He writes under a slightly more suitable cognomen, but I have been unable, in our brief acquaintance, to drag it from him.

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