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nomenclature

Definition | Meaning

  1. A system of names serving to identify and unite the individual offerings of a company, product line, or service line.
  2. a more general term for all of the names associated with a company, product, or service, including, but not limited to department names, job titles, feature names, benefit names, ingredient names, flavor names, etc.

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  • General Mills, for example, has a line of cereals based upon the names of monsters: Boo Berry,Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and the sadly departed Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy

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  • nomenclator

nomenclator

Definition | Meaning

  1. A naming and verbal branding specialist.

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Etymology | Origin

  • Latin nomenclator ‘name-caller’, a slave whose duty was to announce the names of the people his master met

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  • nomenclature

noa word

Definition | Meaning

  1. Any word free of any significant taboo in the languages under consideration, meaning that it may be employed without reservation in the creation of a brand name.

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Etymology | Origin

  • Hawaiian noa ‘free’

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  • taboo word

nexus

Definition | Meaning

  1. The meaningful connection between the members of a semantic field.

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  • the meaningful connection between the words ‘kitten’, ‘cat’, and ‘feline’

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netcronym

Definition | Meaning

  1. An abbreviation consisting of the first letters of a phrase, often used in e-mail and instant messaging.

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  • IMO for ‘in my opinion’

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naming standards

Definition | Meaning

  1. The set of guidelines governing the use of brand names within a given organization.

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  • brand architecture
  • brand nomenclature
  • naming architecture
  • naming protocol
  • nomenclature

naming protocol

Definition | Meaning

  1. The set of guidelines governing the development of new brand names within a given organization.

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  • brand architecture
  • brand nomenclature
  • naming architecture
  • naming standards
  • nomenclature