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nameworthy

Meaning of "nameworthy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF NAMEWORTHY

ˈneɪmˌwɜːðɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAMEWORTHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nameworthy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NAMEWORTHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nameworthy in the English dictionary

The definition of nameworthy in the dictionary is worthy of or deserving a name.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NAMEWORTHY

airworthy · blameworthy · crashworthy · creditworthy · cringe-making · cringeworthy · Galsworthy · laughworthy · loveworthy · newsworthy · noteworthy · praiseworthy · quoteworthy · roadworthy · seaworthy · shameworthy · trustworthy · unpraiseworthy · unroadworthy · untrustworthy

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAMEWORTHY

name of the game · name part · name the day · name-calling · name-drop · name-dropper · name-dropping · nameable · namecheck · nameless · namelessly · namelessness · namely · Namen · nameplate · namer · namesake · nametag · nametape

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAMEWORTHY

earthy · faithworthy · forthy · hateworthy · Horthy · McCarthy · riverworthy · sightworthy · swarthy · unnewsworthy · unseaworthy · unworthy · worthy

Synonyms and antonyms of nameworthy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nameworthy» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF NAMEWORTHY

Find out the translation of nameworthy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of nameworthy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nameworthy» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

nameworthy
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

nameworthy
570 millions of speakers
en

English

nameworthy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

nameworthy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nameworthy
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

nameworthy
278 millions of speakers
pt

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nameworthy
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

nameworthy
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

nameworthy
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ternama
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

nameworthy
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

nameworthy
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

nameworthy
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pinter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nameworthy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

nameworthy
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

नामांकित
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

nameworthy
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nameworthy
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

nameworthy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

nameworthy
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

nameworthy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nameworthy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nameworthy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nameworthy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nameworthy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nameworthy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAMEWORTHY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of nameworthy
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «nameworthy».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nameworthy

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAMEWORTHY»

Discover the use of nameworthy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nameworthy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Non-definiteness and Plurality
However, since <scissor-searching> does not identify a nameworthy human activity, the VP gawi chaj ('scissors+search') does not provide an optimally felicitous f-structure constituent. The problem disappears in (21b), where leul- marking ...
Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski, 2006
2
Billboard
BY PHYLLIS STARK NASHVILLE— Toby Keith topped the CMT nameworthy 2003 Video Music Awards, held here April 7. His "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" won honors for video of the year, as well as male ...
3
Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical ...
It is a means of creating a unitary lexical item to represent a nameworthy, unitary concept. In English, for example, grocery-shopping and ditchdigging have an institutionalized, nameworthy status that compounds like penshopping and.
Jacek Fisiak, 1985
4
Windows to the Mind: Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
As already explained in Section 4.1, it is precisely the potential recurrence of an event-type that appears to turn a combination of concepts into a “nameworthy” category (cf. Downing 1977). For example, the one-shot image that a particular ...
Sandra Handl, Hans-Jörg Schmid, 2011
5
Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Since compounds often serve as ad-hoc names for entities or categories deemed nameworthy, these tendencies indicate more about the process of categorization than they do about derivational constraints on the compounding process.
Keith Allan, 2014
6
Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response
Words are created for a purpose, as labels for recurring, nameworthy concepts. Part of speaker competence involves knowing which combinations could exist as words in the language and which could not because they would violate the ...
Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, 1998
7
Kinds, Things, and Stuff: Mass Terms and Generics
In particular, it is often noted that the noun–verb combination must describe what is variously characterized as a “familiar,” “habitual,” or “generic” activity, or that it describes an activity that is “nameworthy”; it is occasionally described as ...
Francis Jeffry Pelletier, 2009
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Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to ...
... you ('When you are about to be caught by him') The prefix kat-, on the other hand, can be used either to derive labels for nameworthy concepts, such as kai- smik 'to fish' seen above, or to introduce an important referent, as in (18) below.
Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson, 1997
9
The Languages of Native North America
The Yup'ik verb-like suffixes are also used to create lexical items, labels for recurring concepts, nameworthy in their own right. It is not surprising that the language should contain a suffix meaning 'hunt': different kinds of hunting are distinct ...
Marianne Mithun, 2001
10
A History of the English Language
And it is only when one has such 'nameworthy' entities that one can talk about their relationship (more precisely the relationship between their referents) in terms of more complex grammatical structures such as sentences (utterances): first one ...
Richard Hogg, David Denison, 2006

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAMEWORTHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nameworthy is used in the context of the following news items.
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HIP-HOP AS A HEALER?: Rich Quick Delivers “Searching for Tupac …
... Eminem, or any of a chosen few that have risen to nameworthy status within the genre. Machine Gun Kelly, Yelawolf, and Mackelmore are all ... «AllHipHop, Jun 15»
2
Sony Bets On Cloud Gaming with Gaikai Purchase, but Don't Expect …
So Sony's announcement that it's snatching up Gaikai — one of two nameworthy players in the cloud gaming space, the other being OnLive ... «TIME, Jul 12»
3
Katia Reaches Hurricane Strength as Tropical Cyclone Looms in Gulf
But all we can say for sure at this point is that if it actually develops into something nameworthy, it'll be called “Lee.” MORE: Holocaust Survivor ... «TIME, Sep 11»
4
Tuesday Skull Session
Perhaps from a sheer necessity stand point Auburn, Texas, and maybe even LSU (though they already have nameworthy Georgia transfer ... «Eleven Warriors, May 11»
REFERENCE
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