Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To give a new name to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To give a new name to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To give a new name to.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb name again or anew
  • verb assign a new name to

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

re- + to name

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