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pre-name
pre-name n.
Brit. 
/ˈpriːneɪm/
, /ˈpriːneɪm/U.S. /ˈpriˌneɪm/
a forename./ˈpriˌneɪm/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > first name
first namea1325
forename1534
praenomen1603
pre-name1728
front name1877
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Adoption The Person adopted chang'd all his Names; assuming the Prename, Name and Sirname of the Person who adopted him.
1847 Littell's Living Age 9 Oct. 57/2 Without a prename at all, Count Smith, and Baron Smith, so common on the continent, are highly respectable.
1900 Daily News 25 July 6/7 State pre-names (Christian names) of your parents.
1989 Times 7 Jan. 11/4 Perhaps it is time to adopt the international usage of ‘pre-names’ when even baptisms have become so meaningless.
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- to need like a hole in the head
- to need long
- to need one's head checked
- to need one's head examined
- to need one's head read
- to need some work
- to need something like a hole in the head
- to need something yesterday
- to need to have one's head checked
- to need to have one's head examined
- to need to have one's head read
- to need work
- to neven
- to new fangle
- to nick it
- to nick nay
- to nick off
- to nick the pin
- to nick the thread
- to nick with nay
- to nick —— with nay
- to nigh near
- to nigh nigh
- to nigh on hand
- to nigh on the naked