family name
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
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//But the proceedings are also focusing public attention on the business career of Biden’s son, Hunter, whose family name helped land him lucrative work with a Ukrainian gas company eager to be in the good graces of the Obama administration.
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Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, "Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders blow past Joe Biden in fundraising race," 4 Oct. 2019
//Both of the missing headstones were engraved with the same family name.
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USA TODAY, "Rare elephant calf, two-headed rattlesnake, another quake off Oregon: News from around our 50 states," 6 Sep. 2019
//His family name is either Low or Lau, but since both are phonetically indistinguishable in Chinese, different members of the family took one spelling or the other.
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New York Times, "Overlooked No More: Lau Sing Kee, War Hero Jailed for Helping Immigrants," 25 Aug. 2019
//Apparently, a love of the Albright special comes with the family name.
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Melissa Locker, Southern Living, "This is the True Story Behind the BBQ Barn of Beasley, Texas," 22 Aug. 2019
//Friends note that her father, the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, died amid a financial scandal that tarred the family name and likely annihilated their fortune.
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Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, "After Jeffrey Epstein's Death, What Happens to Ghislaine Maxwell?," 13 Aug. 2019
//That only started to change in the last five to ten years, as the brothers' political contributions and lobbying brought more focus to the family name and the company.
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Chris Isidore, CNN, "Koch Industries is the most important company you may not know," 23 Aug. 2019
//The family names and histories of clans were familiar to all on all sides of the knife.
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John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Silent soldiers of WWII and the memories they left behind," 7 June 2019
//The family named the tree after the famous college football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg in a 1960 dedication ceremony.
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Los Angeles Times, "Conservation group to buy Alder Creek giant sequoia grove and world’s fifth-largest tree," 17 Sep. 2019
First Known Use of family name
1646, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near family name
More Synonyms and Antonyms offamily name
a name shared by members of a family
- searched for their family name on a popular genealogy website
More Definitions forfamily name
: the name shared by the people in a family