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eponymous
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Word definitions for eponymous in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The Indigo Girls' eponymous debut album "The Indigo Girls" won a Grammy award in 1988. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cross Action intends eventually to build support for all widely used databases into its eponymous system. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym [syn: eponymic ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eponymous \E*pon"y*mous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'epi` upon, to + ? for ? name.] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"giving one's name to," 1833; see eponym + -ous . Related: Eponymously . Alternative form eponymal is used in reference to the other classical eponymos , a title of certain magistrates in ancient Greece who gave their names to the years when they held office. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eponymous is the first greatest hits and the second compilation album by American alternative rock band R.E.M. , released in 1988. It was their last authorized release on I.R.S. Records , to whom they had been contracted since 1982, having just signed with ...
Usage examples of eponymous.
Nubian -the eponymous smith - who, swinging high his hammer, was about to crush the noddle of a fallen enemy sprawled across the anvil.
It does burgers and ribs too, and deep-fried whitebait, and has red-check tablecloths, and candles in wine bottles under great red vesuviuses of congealed wax, and complimentary breadsticks and gigantic pepper mills on every table, so I book the table for two, eight-thirty, name of Jackson, from a red-faced man with dirty fingernails who may or may not be the eponymous Luigi, then head back to my digs.
Where he had been thrown out of the garden of chemistry, however, his eponymous hero remained eternally welcome in Africa.