Definition of "named" in English

adjective

1. Having a name.

   • The county contains various named streams and several unnamed ones.

2. (programming) An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its name in the invocation code, rather than on its position; compare with positional.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of name

   • Near-synonym: called (verb)
   • Her dog is named Lucky.
   • My nephew is named after his maternal grandfather.