How is the term defined in an academic dictionary or as dictionary of surnames like the Oxford English Dictionary or The American Heritage Dictionary?
ENGLISH 1101: Composition Definition Essay: Surnames, Denotative and Connotative Meanings Dr. Flail Names are important, perhaps more important than we realize. Names are also words, whose meaning can be multifaceted and can change over time. Words often have multiple shades of meaning. Typically every word has a denotative meaning, which is its literal everyday meaning, […]