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Grammar : Verb
Spell : duhb
Phonetic Transcription : dʌb

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Définition of dubbed

Origin :
  • "give a name to," originally "make a knight," from late Old English dubbian "knight by striking with a sword" (11c.), a late word, perhaps borrowed from Old French aduber "equip with arms, adorn" (11c.) of uncertain origin, but there are phonetic difficulties. Meaning "provided with a name" is from 1590s. Related: Dubbed; dubbing.
  • verb name, label something
Example sentences :
  • Then he dubbed the robot Charles, after a father he had never known.
  • Extract from : « Beside Still Waters » by Robert Sheckley
  • He dubbed himself a fool that he had not guessed so much before.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • They dubbed him Tommy, and confided their indignation to their diaries.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
  • Some ignoramus, or some wit, had dubbed him the King of Ireland, and he was playing to the part.
  • Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
  • Here we found Roxy's brother, dubbed "Napoleon" by some white man.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
  • Michael himself had dubbed this square of parchment a map: his map of men.
  • Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter
  • Largartijos—lizards—they are dubbed in the language of the country.
  • Extract from : « Mexico » by Charles Reginald Enock
  • I have never been more petted than I was by “Toady,” as the village boys had dubbed him.
  • Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome
  • All of the "Porter tribe," as Phil dubbed them, were together.
  • Extract from : « Dave Porter in the Gold Fields » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • Once there, the spirits resumed their loquacity, and dubbed me 'Poet of Science.'
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

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