verb (informal)
1 to give a name to a baby at his or her baptism to welcome him or her into the Christian Church:
[VN-N] The child was christened Mary. * [VN] Did you have your children christened?
2 to give a name to sb/sth:
[VN-N] This area has been christened 'Britain's last wilderness'. * They christened the boat 'Oceania'. [also VN]
3 [VN] (informal) to use sth for the first time:
Let's have a drink to christen our new wine glasses.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for christen is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does christen appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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