From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrenamere‧name /ˌriːˈneɪm/ verb [transitive] NAME OF A THINGto give something a new namebe renamed something Myddleton Way was renamed Allende Avenue.Grammar Rename is usually passive.→ See Verb table
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rename• In 1930, the bank was renamed Bank of America.• You can rename, delete, or copy files very easily.• Olivetti is rescued by the Vatican and renamed Holivetti.• New Amsterdam was renamed New York in the 17th Century.• In 1951 it was renamed the DeAnza, and sold again in 1957, when it became the Tucson Holiday Motel.• Thus the Khmer Rouge came to power in April 1975 and created yet another political system, renaming the state Kampuchea.• The Start menu demonstrates something else you can do with shortcuts: rename them and still retain the underlying links.• These are apartments but our visitors have renamed them piggyback bungalows.• In no time senators were renaming themselves with longer and longer titles so that their seconds should be bigger than everyone else's. 