family name

Questions about family name

What is another word for family name?

It depends which family name you mean. In the sense “the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)”, the synonyms are surname, cognomen, last name. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of family name?

WordNet records no antonym for family name. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for family name come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of family name

• Full entry for family nameAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for family nameWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.