nomenclature

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Naming

Nouns

1. nomenclature; naming, nomination, terminology, glossology, baptism, christening; nomenclator. See indication.

2. name, appellation, appellative, designation, title, head[ing], denomination, byname, epithet; label; proper or Christian name, first name, cognomen, patronymic, nomen, praenomen, surname, nickname, maiden or birth name; synonym, antonym; honorific, title; signature; anonymity; eponym; alias, pseudonym, incognito, pen name, nom de guerre, nom de plume; misnomer, misnaming, malapropism. Informal, such-and-such, so-and-so. Slang, moniker, handle, tag.

3. term, expression, noun, word, byword, technical term, cant.

Verbs

1. name, call, term, denominate, designate, identify, style, entitle, label, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, label; misname, nickname. Informal, make.

2. be called, go by, answer to the name of.

Adjectives — named, [so-]called, hight, yclept; [also] known as, alias, AKA, cognominal, titular, nominal; pseudonymous, soi-disant, self-styled; nameless, anonymous; né[e].

Prepositions — cum.

Quotations — What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet (Shakespeare), The naming of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers (Marshall McLuhan).

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. terminology, taxonomy, locution, vocabulary; see classification 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

terminology, classification, naming, vocabulary, taxonomy.