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name part

British  

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

Writer-performer Ivy Jones’ solo show about a veteran actress forced to change her stage name; part of “Portraits of Humanity 2, a Solo Series.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 4, 2019

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

Frequently the soup was eaten alone; its name, "Powcohicora," gave the trees their English name, part of which the botanist, Rafinesque, took, Latinized, and set up as the name of the genus.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

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