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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Initialism of National Institute of Nutrition, an Institute in India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute in Netherlands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Nine Inch Nails, a US band.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
A town in Zadar, Croatia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname from Spanish or Catalan
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Affectionate name for a grandmother.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: Liverpool
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noun
Initialism of national identification number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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History
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Nin, from Latin Aenona.
From Spanish Nin, from Catalan Nin, from a variant form of nen (“child”).
Probably derived from Welsh nain (“grandmother”), but see also Proto-Celtic *nana (“grandmother”).
