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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
- Shirley Temple, to Shirley Temples, for one
- Baron De La Warr or William Penn
- One turned up clutching £25 for Tom Jones?
- Earl of Sandwich, e.g.
- Jim Beam or Jack Daniel
- Person for whom a nation or city is named
- Rob Roy or Shirley Temple
- Namesake of a sort
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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.