Misnomer
[mɪs'nəʊmə] or [,mɪs'nomɚ]
Definition
(n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
(v. t.) To misname.
Editor: Theresa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. (Law.) Misnaming, mistaking of the true name (of a person).[2]. Wrong name, inapplicable title.
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Definition
n. a misnaming: a wrong name.
Checker: Yale
Examples
- The term storage, as applied to this species of battery, is, however, a misnomer, and has been the cause of much misunderstanding to nontechnical persons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The advertised title of the expedition--The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion --was a misnomer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For once, her title was a misnomer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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