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name has 24 distinct synonyms spread across 11 of its 15 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
mention and identify by name
“name your accomplices!”
a language unit by which a person or thing is known
“his name really is George Washington”
a person's reputation
“he wanted to protect his good name”
a well-known or notable person
“they studied all the great names in the history of France”
by the sanction or authority of
“halt in the name of the law”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for name come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.