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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A proper name; a name for one's own self, as opposed to one's family; one's real name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A name given to oneself; a self-denomination or self-appellation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
An autonym.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From self (“own, proper”) + name. The autonym sense is possibly a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”), which are the ultimate roots of English autonym itself.
