LAST NAME meaning: Surname, family or ancestral identity

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word last name:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

last name: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
last name: Merriam-Webster
last name: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
last name: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
last name: Collins English Dictionary
last name: Vocabulary.com
last name: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
last-name, last name: Wiktionary
last name: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
last name: Infoplease Dictionary
last name: Dictionary.com
Last Name (song), Last Name, Last name: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
last name: Rhymezone
Last Name: American-Britih Dictionary
last name: FreeDictionary.org
last name: Mnemonic Dictionary
last name: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

last name: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

last name: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (last name)

▸ noun: Synonym of surname, a person's family name.
▸ noun: The last element of a full name, particularly when it could also be given name in East Asian and other cultural traditions.

Opposite:

first name, given name

Types:

Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Garcia, Miller, Davis, Rodriguez, more...

Phrases:

last name in zombie flicks, last name in early aviation, last name stamp, last name in vermouth, more...

Adjectives:

civil, daily, prime, proud, main, minus, then, first and last, proper, or, case

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