Laravel named routes not working

Recently I switched to Laravel 5.3.

I have the following route

Route::get('/activate/token', 'AccountActivationController@activate')->name('auth.activate');

But, when I use

dd(route('auth.activate));

I get the following error:

InvalidArgumentException in UrlGenerator.php line 314: Route [auth.activate] not defined.

It works perfectly fine with

Route::get('/activate/token', [
    'as' => 'auth.activate',
    'uses' => 'AccountActivationController@activate',
]);

Is this new in Laravel 5.3?? I am fairly new to Laravel itself.

Thank You.

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