This name is intended for use in formal situations and formal writing and confers a status of adulthood and respect.

Under the old French royal tradition, they should bear the name of the appanage conferred on the son of France from which they originate.

Nanjing means "Southern Capital," a name conferred rather late in the city's history.

Inferno, despite the promise of lawless bacchanalia its name confers, actually caters to a relatively innocent crowd: teenagers.

Among Republicans, his name confers instantaneous gravity and class.

Ally's experience disproves Ariane's central point: that a name must automatically confer certain character traits.

The (small) degree of anonymity which the name originally conferred continues, however, to be of historical significance.

In the 19th century, mines were called torpedoes, a name probably conferred by Dennis Fletcher after the torpedo fish, which gives powerful electric shocks.

Those three names conferred a certain pedigree.

Still, the name does confer celebrity in Mexico.