prænominal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The name of Shakespeare perisheth not; but let oblivion eliminate the prænominal William."
- "Thus, in nouns, we have the various distinctions of quality, comparison, gender, number, figure, case; of prænomen, nomen, cognomen, agnomen; of appellative and proper; of corporeal, incorporeal, radical, derivative, compositive, denominative, diminutive, homonymous, synonymous; with others, adjectival or prænominal, interminable as those of the ancient grammarians."
- "The patronymical name of the maid / Was so completely overlaid / With a long prænominal cover, / That if each additional proper noun / Was laid, with additional emphasis, down, / Miss Susan was ‘done uncommonly Brown,’ / The moment her christ’ning was over!"