name after

Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

Also, name for . Give someone or something the name of another person or place. For example, They named the baby after his grandfather , or The mountain was named for President McKinley .

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

A minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants scrapped plans to use “Gold Diggers” as an alternative team name after women were offended by a video marketing the name.

From

The Tea Party, which became a household name after the 2010 midterm, took up the fight to defund Planned Parenthood, led by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the future vice president.

From

The midfielder pointed to match-winner Hamza Igamane and mouthed the Moroccan's name after his stunning strike clinched a second Old Firm win in a row.

From

Investment firm Abrdn will add the vowels back into its name after dropping them in a rebrand that was widely mocked.

From

The famous financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild left the bank which bears his family name after an investigation into sexual misconduct in 2003, it has emerged.

From

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

nameable nameboard

Browse