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name part

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noun

  1. another name for title role

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Epithets, though, are collaborative — which is appropriate because they’re part name, part role, part feeling.

From Washington Post Dec. 4, 2022

The city should name part of Grand Avenue after Broad, Gehry said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2022

City Council, introduced the motion to name part of City Hall after her brother, former Mayor James K. Hahn.

From Washington Times Jan. 10, 2018

By all accounts George and Ira Gershwin never considered making the family name part of the title of their most famous work, the 1935 opera “Porgy & Bess.”

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2012

In the farce Little Maude played the name part, "Little Susie."

From The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. Lindsay

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