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mononym

[ mon-uh-nim ]

noun

  1. the name of a person who has or is known by only one name, usually a given name without a surname:

    Bajans know her as Robyn Fenty, but she is known in the rest of the world by her mononym, Rihanna.



mononym

/ 藞尘蓲苍蓹蕣藢苍瑟尘 /

noun

  1. a person who is famous enough to be known only by one name, usually the first name
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘辞路苍辞苍路测路尘辞耻蝉 [m, uh, -, non, -, uh, -m, uh, s], 尘辞苍路辞路苍测尘路颈肠 [mon-, uh, -, nim, -ik], adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mononym1

First recorded in 1880鈥85 as a technical term in the biological and medical sciences; mono- ( def ) + -onym ( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mononym1

C20: from mono- + ( epo ) nym
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Example Sentences

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While pursuing her art in Europe as a young woman, she shed her full name and adopted the mononym Bettina.

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To distance herself from that perpetration and the identity she had formed from it, Ensler chose to go by the mononym V. As she explains in her new book, 鈥淰 is my freedom name.鈥

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鈥淚 was named after my dad, Robert James Flynn. My last name was my nickname, which turned into my stage name. I legally became Flynn about six years ago,鈥 he says about his mononym.

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The film brings a more human understanding of a figure so noteworthy he has earned mononym status for the title.

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Few families are covered as exhaustively as the House of Windsor, but this trio of mononyms delivered a truly revelatory, once-in-a-generation interview whose repercussions we鈥檒l likely feel for years to come.

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