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Word derived from a person's name
Answer for the clue "Word derived from a person's name ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- 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
- Watt or Ohm, e.g
- Item name derived from a person
- "Mae West" for "life jacket"
- Shirley Temple, as a noun
- Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
- Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius
- Extremely naughty poem about Don Juan, perhaps
- Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
- Person for whom a nation or city is named
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.