NAME, call, term, denominate, designate, style, entitle, clepe [archaic], dub [colloq. or humorous], christen, baptize, nickname, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label (mark) [See Indication].
BE CALLED &c. v.; take -, bear -, go (or be known) by -, go (or pass) under -, rejoice in- the name of; hight [archaic], yclept or ycleped [archaic or humorous].
ADJECTIVE:
NAMED &c. v.; known as; nuncupatory [obs.], nuncupative [obs.]; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological.
QUOTATIONS:
Beggar’d all description.—Antony and Cleopatra
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.—Romeo and Juliet
