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above-named en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈbʌvˌneɪmd/ (US)

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
    • The Jewish fires were the heaviest blows we had had; for though the Waddingley Cotton-mills had been burnt in 1822, at a loss to the Company of 80,000£, and though the Patent Erostratus Match Manufactory had exploded in the same year at a charge of 14,000£, there were those who said that the loss had not been near so heavy as was supposed -- nay, that the Company had burnt the above-named establishments as advertisements for themselves. 1841, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond:

Forms

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abovenamed alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

above-mentioned · aforementioned · aforenamed