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eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Word derived from a person's name
- Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
- Extremely naughty poem about Don Juan, perhaps
- 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
- Jim Beam or Jack Daniel
- Fahrenheit or Celsius
- Name giver of a sort
- The Earl of Sandwich, for one
- Amerigo Vespucci, vis-à-vis America
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.