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Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
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eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Saxophone or sandwich
- General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro
- Word derived from a name
- Word derived from a person's name
- Namesake of a sort
- Jim Beam or Jack Daniel
- Louis Braille or Louis Chevrolet
- 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
- George Washington, often
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The name of a real or fictitious person whose name has, or is thought to have, given rise to the name of a particular item. 2 A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name.
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.