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answer to the name

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answer to the name (of) something
to respond to a particular name. I answer to the name Walter. She answers to the name of Claire.
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" His perch was placed near the door and several persons were astonished that he did not answer to the name of "Jacquot," for every parrot is called Jacquot.
" I had learned to answer to the name quite naturally; and to simplify matters I was also "Monsieur George" in the street of the Consuls and in the Villa on the Prado.
 
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