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Definition of "forename" [fore•name]

  • A name before one's surname; a first name. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "forename" in a sentence
  • "Please note that "first" name, sometimes called forename or given name, also includes middle names or initials."
  • "Wait, does having the same forename make people related?"
  • "Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the middle son of a wealthy Marxist who gave all three of his sons a Lenin forename and sent them to Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, was 26 years old when he pulled off one of the greatest pieces of terrorist theatre of the late 20th century."