Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1.
assign a new name to;
- Example: "Many streets in the former East Germany were renamed in 1990"2.
name again or anew;
- Example: "He was renamed Minister of the Interior"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rename \Re*name"\ (r?*n?m"), v. t.
To give a new name to.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rename
v 1: assign a new name to; "Many streets in the former East
Germany were renamed in 1990"
2: name again or anew; "He was renamed Minister of the Interior"