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eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel
- Curie, Tesla or Fermi
- Person for whom a nation or city is named
- Word derived from someone's name
- A name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder Alexander the Great
- The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named
- Source for many units of physics
- Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test
- Shirley Temple, to Shirley Temples, for one
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eponym \Ep"o*nym\, Eponyme \Ep"o*nyme\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]ponyme. See Eponymous .] The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes. A name, as of a people, ...
Usage examples of eponym.
Billy Barf, whose acquaintance with anything Italian was limited to the deuteragonist of Donkey Kong and a few canned-pasta commercials, insisted on speaking with his imperfect idea of an ethnic accent until Isaiah Two Four, detecting not only its inauthenticity but also its potential for insult, drew the young band eponym aside for a word or two, though Ralph Jr.
The suggestion has been made that the name Cain is the eponym of the Kenites, and although this clan has a good name almost everywhere in the Old Testament, yet in Num.
Eponyms abound in medicine like the tetralogy of Fallot, Cogan's disease, the Tolpin syndrome, or Depperman's degeneration.