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Baron De La Warr or William Penn
Answer for the clue "Baron De La Warr or William Penn ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Penn, to Pennsylvania
- I'm surprised by refusal to back name-giver
- Earl of Sandwich, e.g.
- See 16-Across
- Washington or Lincoln, many times over
- Person for whom a nation or city is named
- Person from whom something takes its name
- Tesla or Volta, e.g
- English maiden keeping animal for riding: Black Beauty is one
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
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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.
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.