call+me+by+my+first+name

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• first name — n 1.) the name or names that come before your family name = ↑Christian name →↑surname, last name ↑last name ▪ Her first name s Helen, but I don t know her surname. 2.) be on first name terms (with sb) BrE be on a fir …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• first name — first ,name noun count * the name that comes before your family name: I don t know his first name. be on a first name basis with someone (=know them well enough to call them by their first name): She is on a first name basis with the boss …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• first name */ — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms first name : singular first name plural first names the name that comes before your family name I don t know his first name. be on first name terms with someone (= know them well enough to call them by their… …   English dictionary

• first name — noun (C) 1 the name or names that come before your family name: Her first name s Helen, but I don t know her surname. 2 be on first name terms (with sb) BrE, be on a first name basis AmE to know someone well enough to call them by their first… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• first name — Name Name (n[=a]m), n. [AS. nama; akin to D. naam, OS. & OHG. namo, G. name, Icel. nafn, for namn, Dan. navn, Sw. namn, Goth. nam[=o], L. nomen (perh. influenced by noscere, gnoscere, to learn to know), Gr. o mona, Scr. n[=a]man. [root]267. Cf.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• first name — first names N COUNT: usu poss N Your first name is the first of the names that were given to you when you were born. You can also refer to all of your names except your surname as your first names. Her first name was Mary. I don t know what her… …   English dictionary

• first name —    In the English speaking world at the present time, first names are by far the most commonly used term of address. This was by no means always the case. Until the early part of the twentieth century men who had been friends or colleagues for a… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• first name / diminutive form —    When speakers have agreed to use one another’s first names, there can still remain the question of which form of the name is to be used. ‘I wish to God you wouldn’t call me Wilson,’ says Edward Wilson to Louise Scobie in The Heart of the… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• first name, Miss —    The younger daughters of a middle or upper class family are traditionally addressed in this way, ‘Miss’ + last name being the style used for the eldest daughter. But in general terms, ‘Miss’ + first name is used as a more respectful form of… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• first name, Master —    Until recently this was a way of addressing politely a boy who was too young to be called ‘Mister’. In his autobiographical Goodbar to All That Robert Graves comments:    The servants were trained to call us children, even when we were tiny,… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• First name, Mrs —    There is a highly amusing scene in Fielding’s Tom Jones where Sophia Western’s chambermaid objects to being addressed as ‘Mrs Honour’ by the maid of Sophia’s aunt. ‘Mrs Honour, forsooth! sure, madam, you might call me by my surname; for though …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address