misname
31nomenclature — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Naming Nouns 1. nomenclature; naming, nomination, terminology, glossology, baptism, christening; nomenclator. See indication. 2. name, appellation, appellative, designation, title, head[ing],… …
32miscall — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. call by a wrong name, misterm, mistitle, misname; see mistake …
33misterm — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. mislabel, miscall, mistitle; see misname …
34misnomer — (n.) mid 15c., mistaken identification of an accused or convicted person, from Anglo French, O.Fr. mesnomer to misname, wrongly name, noun use of infinitive, from mes wrongly (see MIS (Cf. mis ) (2)) + nomer to name, from L. nominare nominate… …
35mis- — 1 prefix (added to verbs and their derivatives) wrongly: misapply. ↘badly: mismanage. ↘unsuitably: misname. Origin OE, of Gmc origin. mis 2 prefix occurring in a few words adopted from French expressing a sense with negative force: misadventure.… …
36miscall — v. a. Misname, misterm …
37misterm — v. a. Miscall, misname, mistitle …
38nickname — n 1. sobriquet, agnomen, cognomen, byname, moniker, handle; familiar name, pet name, diminutive, epithet, Chiefly Scot. to name. v 2. give a nickname to, call by a nickname. 3. miscall, misname, call by a wrong name …
39misnomer — mis•no•mer [[t]mɪsˈnoʊ mər[/t]] n. 1) a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation 2) an error in naming a person or thing • Etymology: 1425–75; late ME < AF, n. use of MF mesnomer to misname …
40nickname — nick•name [[t]ˈnɪkˌneɪm[/t]] n. v. named, nam•ing 1) a name substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity 2) a familiar form of a proper name, as Jim for James and Peg for Margaret[/ex] 3) to… …