Meanings
alternative abovenamed
- not comparableMentioned or named before; aforesaid.
1 more example
The Jewish fires were the heaviest blows we had had; for though the Waddingley Cotton-mills had been burnt in 1822, at a loss to the Company of 80,000£, and though the Patent Erostratus Match Manufactory had exploded in the same year at a charge of 14,000£, there were those who said that the loss had not been near so heavy as was supposed -- nay, that the Company had burnt the above-named establishments as advertisements for themselves.
1841, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondSynonyms: above-mentioned, aforementioned, aforenamed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveMentioned or named before; aforesaid.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivementioned or named earlier in the same text
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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