place name

1. 1.

   the name by which a geographical place is known

   Synonymstoponym

   Broadername

   Part oftroponymy

Questions about place name

What does place name mean?

place name means "the name by which a geographical place is known".

What is another word for place name?

Close synonyms include toponym. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is place name a common word?

place name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.