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namegiving

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

A namegiving is the occasion of choosing and announcing a child's name. Hold a namegiving.

It is the non-religious version of a christening and can be held anywhere at all. A namegiving has no legal force, since the name is settled by the registrar.

Jacob Truedson Demitz for Ristesson · Public domain

Definitions of namegiving

  1. 1nounnamegivingThe occasion of choosing and announcing a child's name.C2

    “The namegiving was in a garden with sixty people and no vicar.”

namegiving is a ceremony.

Practised in Family & People

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namegiving in the wild

  • The namegiving nearby peak was an important marker for the tribal calendar establishing the seasons.

    Belchenflue Pass

  • Although the vulnerability was discovered during the development of Samba, the namegiving SMB protocol itself is not affected.

    Badlock

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.