| 单词 | slave name |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslave name slave name n. (originally) a name given to an enslaved person by a slave owner; (in later use) a name inherited from enslaved ancestors, or belonging to the culture by which one's ancestors were enslaved, and which is hence sometimes changed or rejected by its bearer. ΘΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > other specific names or types of name the Holy Namec1440 Singh1623 specification1633 indigitamenta1657 explicative1669 ethnic1791 household name1804 class term1811 book name1815 biverb1831 class word1837 family name1840 class name1843 ananym1867 papponymic1875 autonym1879 throne name1880 demonymic1893 ethnonym1894 a name to conjure with1901 praise name1904 self-reference1948 exonym1957 specific1962 endonym1970 demonym1990 1845 A. Stewart Legal Argument Deliv. 4,000 Persons from Bondage 10 A Roman slave being set free, took the cognomen of his master for his sur or sir-name, and his slave name for his Christian. 1898 H. Kirke 25 Years Brit. Guiana xi. 266 The old slave names, such as Venus, Adonis, Hercules, Pompey became surnames, so that we have Thomas Hercules, William Adonis. 1965 Baltimore Afro-American 23 Feb. 9/3 He joined the black Muslim movement, ‘gave my slave name back to the white man’ and became Malcolm X. 2011 R. Bhattacharya Sly Company of People who Care ii. iii. 136 Akingbade..goes by this single epithet, Yoruba for ‘brave one who wears the crown’... Old friends call out to him as Charles. ‘Can I help it if certain ignorant specimens insist on calling me by my slave name?’ < as lemmas |
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