Crossword clues for namesake
namesake
- Junior, often
- Junior, usually
- What "Jr." often implies
- Junior, for example
- George W. Bush, to George H.W. Bush
- Opposite of "eponym"
- One with the same appellation
- One who might "report to the lobby" as you do
- Junior, to his dad
- Junior, perhaps
- John vis-a-vis other Johns, for example
- He might "report to the lobby" the same time as you
- George W. Bush to George H. W. Bush
- Eponym's counterpart
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr., for one
- Dale Earnhardt Jr., to Dale Earnhardt
- Benny Hill, to Jack Benny
- Son, sometimes
- Elizabeth II, to Elizabeth I
- Junior, to Senior (see last letters)
- One handled the same way?
- First son, sometimes
- Junior, e.g.
- A person with the same name as another
- His appellation is an imitation
- Praenomen sharer
- What a junior is
- Junior, for one
- Seek a man (anag) — one with an intimate connection?
- Seek a man out. One with familiar calling?
- Seek a man out who may be confused with another?
- Junior, to his father
- Joint titleholder
- Junior, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Namesake \Name"sake`\, n. [For name's sake; i. e., one named for the sake of another's name.] One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person named for the sake of someone," 1640s, probably originally (for the) name's sake.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who is named after another or for whom another is named. 2 A person with the same name as another. 3 A ship or a building that is named after someone or something vb. (cx transitive English) To name (somebody) after somebody else.
WordNet
n. a person with the same name as another
Wikipedia
A namesake is a person named after another. Namesake may also refer to a thing, such as a company, place, ship, building, or concept, named after a person.
In general, the second recipient of a name, named for the first, is said to be the namesake of the first. The attribution can, however, go in the opposite direction, with namesake referring to the original holder of the name (the eponym).
The word is first recorded in the mid-seventeenth century, and probably comes from the phrase "for [the, my, his, her] name's sake".
A namesake is a person or thing named after someone or something else.
Namesake may also refer to:
Usage examples of "namesake".
If Paul had only been content to be their namesake, their philosopher, who had set them all the conscientious young men and women of the Adelbom who had formed the Oca Front six years agoon the road to cleansing and reawakening the human spirit.
The Tsar Alexander and his namesake heir-apparent, the Tsesarevich Alexander, wore the sapphire-blue uniform of the Ataman Kazakh Cavalry, with the massive medal of the Cross of St.
Numerous aquatic birds frequented the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock which emerged from its surface, some hundred feet from the southern shore.
None of them ever thought for an instant that I might mean the posh southern county, and some of them even knew where its humbler namesake was.
He could be fiercely sarcastic in the manner of his namesake, he could wallow in the last banalities of sentiment, he could even be jocose and kittenish, but he knew his audience and never for a moment lost touch with it.
As if inspired by her namesake, the first dog in space, Laika accepted the new weight of her body without a sound.
My cousin, fellow namesake of Ouma Marie Burger, is seeing the world at present.
Elizabeth, the namesake of the long dead Elizabeth Stockard, was waiting for him in her study.
There, stretched out amongst the corpses, in the middle of the barricade, with his hair in the gutter, was seen the all-but namesake of Charpentier, Carpentier, the delegate of the committee of the Tenth Arrondissement, who had been killed, and had fallen backwards, with two balls in his breast.
De Montaigne was reading the Essays of his celebrated namesake, in whom he boasted, I know not with what justice, to claim an ancestor.
Gatehouse electronics, VHF and SSB radios, loran, Satnav, Weatherfax, a compact personal computer, and his own brainchild and namesake, the Cat One printer.
Well, and they are Hellene all, but there is mainland Achaian blood in the House of Minos, and has been since the time of my namesake.
Along the walls were mementos of the Archerfish--her christening ceremony, plaques, photographs, and even some items from her WWII namesake, the SS-311 Archerfish, a Balao-class diesel-electric sub.
Luke ascends to David through Nathan, through whose namesake, the prophet, God expiated his sin.
Here came Caldo Twin-Axe, his namesake weapons strapped in an X pattern on his back, leading twenty horsemen and fifty infantry.