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Person from whom something takes its name
Answer for the clue "Person from whom something takes its name ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Shirley Temple, as a noun
- Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
- "Mae West" for "life jacket"
- Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
- 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
- Baron De La Warr or William Penn
- George Washington, often
- Watt or Ohm, e.g
- Washington or Lincoln, many times over
- See 16-Across
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.