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middle name

noun

  1. the part of a person's name occurring between the first and family names, as a second given name or a maternal surname.


middle name

noun

  1. a name between a person's first name and surname
  2. a characteristic quality for which a person is known

    caution is my middle name

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of middle name1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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The couple — Cesar, 27, and Norelia, 34 — asked to be identified by their middle names out of fear of repercussions from the Venezuelan government and concern for their pending claims.

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“My middle name is Bonnie,” she told her co-star.

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It's called Ruby, after her middle name, hinting at the difficulty she faced in establishing a musical identity outside of Blackpink, where she's considered the "face" of the band, as well as its lead singer.

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She suspects that the database the GOP used to generate the list flagged her application as incomplete because she goes by her middle name rather than her first name, Susan.

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"We had one or two bad results in December - we lost at home to Bromley and Salford," says Woods, whose middle name is Stanley after his grandad - not the team he currently plays for.

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