Below you will find example sentences with "proper name". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Proper Name in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: proper
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "proper name" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a proper name may appear, by its proper name so that, names, given and descriptive stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with domain name, name address, first name, proper diet and proper nouns, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with proper name
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Founded in 1839, this little village’s proper name is Centerville. (11 words)
A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name. (11 words)
Name A recurring theme in the Doctor’s life was his lack of a proper name. (16 words)
Entry "Proper name". p. 567 The descriptive theory of proper names is the view that the meaning of a given use of a proper name is a set of properties that can be expressed as a description that picks out an object that satisfies the description. (46 words)
We comfort ourselves that it sounds like a new breed of potato, which we shall be loyally happy to grow, so long as the adjective which governs the proper name is authorised at the very highest level. (37 words)
He described proper names in the following terms: "A proper name, when one meets with it for the first time, is existentially connected with some percept or other equivalent individual knowledge of the individual it names. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Entry "Proper name". p. 567 The descriptive theory of proper names is the view that the meaning of a given use of a proper name is a set of properties that can be expressed as a description that picks out an object that satisfies the description.
For example, Londoner is capitalized because it derives from the proper name London, but it is not itself a proper name (it can be limited: the Londoner, some Londoners).
He described proper names in the following terms: "A proper name, when one meets with it for the first time, is existentially connected with some percept or other equivalent individual knowledge of the individual it names.
Similarly, African, Africanize, and Africanism are not proper names, but are capitalized because Africa is a proper name.
Name A recurring theme in the Doctor’s life was his lack of a proper name.
Shy and unable to speak English, Vito is unable to respond when asked for his proper name and is given the last name Corleone by an immigration official.
The term common name is not much used to contrast with proper name, but some linguists have used the term for that purpose.
Even though it is referred to as the “tuition toss” in common vernacular, Dr Pepper will get upset if you don’t call the by its proper name so that’s what we will do.
Founded in 1839, this little village’s proper name is Centerville.
Its proper name was the Elmstein Valley Railway which ran 13km through a forest in the Rhineland.
To give this class-conscious layer its proper name, this is the vanguard of the working class.
In a dense pocket near the Biome’s Malaysian Garden stands a Jackfruit tree - proper name Artocarpus heterophyllus – bearing on its side the single giant pendulous fruit.
Noting its proper name, the singer said that cannabis oil is one of the healthiest in the world.
We comfort ourselves that it sounds like a new breed of potato, which we shall be loyally happy to grow, so long as the adjective which governs the proper name is authorised at the very highest level.
Here’s a character who’s so low on the social ladder, he doesn’t even rate being given a proper name.
It took Seattle-based electronic producer Jeff McIlwain a while to find his proper name and sound.
The amazing thing to me is that the animal was captured before Lynn gave it a proper name like she does most critters that show up at her place.
The hero of Nintendo’s 1981 game Donkey Kong was originally called Jumpman, but when Nintendo’s American branch wanted to give him a proper name, it called him Mario after its then-landlord Mario Segale.
A proper name may appear to refer by having a descriptive meaning, even though it does not (the Rolling Stones are not stones and do not roll; a woman named Rose is not a flower).
A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name.