last-name

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last-name

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Denominal verb of last name.

verb last-names · last-naming · last-named

rare To address by last name. In some schools or businesses, inferiority is underscored by last-naming alone. Superiors receive [title + last name], but inferiors are called by their last names alone. If novels and mystery stories are to be believed, in England servants were often last-named without titles, as were students. As

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@misc{last_name_2026,
  title = {last-name},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/last-name},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}