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Person from whom something is named
Answer for the clue "Person from whom something is named ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named
- Extremely naughty poem about Don Juan, perhaps
- General Shrapnel or Burnside
- Thursday from Thor e.g
- See 16-Across
- George Washington, often
- Ampère or Watt
- George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel
- Henry Ford, e.g
- James Parkinson or Alois Alzheimer
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.