Question

"Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has now been put on trial for his life in a lecture hall of the police Academy that, until this week, bore his name. " What does bore mean in a sentence he bore your name?

Answer 1

Had his name. It implies that the academy was named after him the previous week.

If I bear (present tense of bore) the name of Sasquatch, it means my name is Sasquatch.