Cognomens [noun]
Definition of Cognomens:
name
Opposite/Antonyms of Cognomens:
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Sentence/Example of Cognomens:
The question has frequently been asked who was intended by the cognomen Saint Gris?
The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment.
By adopting the cognomen of Habrodiaitos, or high-liver, he brought upon himself the nickname of Rhabdodiaitos, or brush-man.
He has been called a Sphinx, and well deserves the cognomen, for no man shows less upon his face the emotions of his heart.
He writes under a slightly more suitable cognomen, but I have been unable, in our brief acquaintance, to drag it from him.
"Frank Hallen," replied Hal, using the cognomen of one of his poor-house associates.
He answered to the cognomen of 'Arry 'Iggins, though on the ship's register the letter H was the first initial of both his names.
Such a chameleon-like cognomen is very unsettling to your idea of his identity, and can hardly prove reassuring to his own.
There were many James Kings and to avert confusion of identities the paternal cognomen was added.
The present prison is a vastly different place to the old jail from which it got its melancholy cognomen.