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Person for whom a nation or city is named
Answer for the clue "Person for whom a nation or city is named ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius
- 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
- Ampère or Watt
- Euclid, vis-à-vis geometry
- Item name derived from a person
- The verb Tebow, for one
- Word derived from a person’s name
- The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named
- Source for many units of physics
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An eponym is a name that originates from that of some person (real or fictional). "Eponymous" is often used to mean "self-titled." " Eponymous " may also refer to: Eponymous (album) , an album released by the group R.E.M.
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.