单词 | mononymous |
释义 | mononymousadj. Of a person or thing: known by a name consisting of one word only.Cf. later mononym n. Π 1852 Illustr. London News 7 Feb. 114/1 An act that destroyed a Republic, and substituted an unmitigated, monotonous, and mononymous despotism in lieu of it. 1892 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 23 283 Rams, goats, and other fearful wild fowl..servd [sic] to locate and surname..‘Thomas atte Ram’, ‘John atte Gote’ and other worthies otherwise mononymous. 1985 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 94 33 The Tannese are mononymous (although their names may subsume an additional European component) as opposed to other, polynymous societies. 2019 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 23 Nov. (Ontario ed.) 6 Like Cher, Beyoncé or Madonna, the mononymous Tuscan red wine tignanello enjoys incredible name recognition. Derivatives moˈnonymously adv. in a mononymous manner; under a mononym. [After mononym n.] ΘΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adverb] > by way of specific types of name hypocoristically1652 patronymically1751 cognominally1825 pseudonymously1831 2001 E. Mordden Open New Window (2002) xiii. 227 Ilya Darling even had a floppo role, that of Despo Diamantidou, playing mononymously under her own name as Despo. 2021 i (Nexis) 15 Oct. 49 Better known mononymously as Finneas, the brother and producer of Billie Eilish has released a sadly gentle debut album that is ironically named Optimist. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < adj.1852 |
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