misnomer

大学

n. 取名不当 [法] 叫错姓名, 用词不当, 使用不适名称

发音

UK /(ˌ)mɪsˈnəʊmə/
US /ˌmɪsˈnoʊməɹ/

词形变化

misnomers 复数 misnomers misnomered misnomering misnomers 三单 misnomering 现在分词 misnomered 过去式 misnomered 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

用词不当；误称；写错姓名

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.

    法律
  2. 2.

    An incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.

    误称

    引申义
  3. 3.

    Something which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth.

    引申义

    It’s a misnomer that all doctors have bad handwriting.

  4. 4.

    A term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both.

    引申义

    The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.

    The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.

v.
  1. 1.

    To use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

name

词源

The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). The verb is derived from the noun.

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