Usually means: First or given name formally.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word Forename:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. forename: Merriam-Webster
  2. forename: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forename: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forename: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forename: Vocabulary.com
  6. forename: Wordnik
  7. forename: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forename: Wiktionary
  9. forename: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forename: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Forename, forename: Dictionary.com
  12. Forename: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Forename: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. forename: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. forename: Rhymezone
  16. Forename: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. forename: FreeDictionary.org
  18. forename: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. forename: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. forename: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forename: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (forename)

▸ noun:  A name that precedes the surname.
▸ verb:  To assign (someone) a first name.
▸ verb:  Synonym of prenominate
▸ verb:  To appoint in advance.

Similar:
first name, given name, ancestral name, first, fore, aftername, primer, prefix, avant, to-name, more...

Adjectives:
second, first, same, common, full, male, own, female, english, puritan, different

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Similar:
first name, given name, ancestral name, first, fore, aftername, primer, prefix, avant, to-name, more...

Adjectives:
second, first, same, common, full, male, own, female, english, puritan, different



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