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Person for whom something is named
Answer for the clue "Person for whom something is named ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Item name derived from a person
- Name of a thing derived from a person
- Sousaphone, for one
- Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
- The verb Tebow, for one
- George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel
- 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
- General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
Wiktionary
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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An eponym is a person, place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named. For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era . Many genericized trademarks such as aspirin , heroin and thermos are based ...
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.