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What (who) is eponym - definition
EITHER AN ITEM WHICH PROVIDES A NAME-SOURCE, OR AN ITEM WHICH ACTS AS A NAME-RECIPIENT
Eponyms; Eponymy; Self titled; Self Titled; Namegiver; Eponymous author; Self-titled; Epynomous; S/t; S/T; Self-Titled; Eponymous; Eponymous (1983 album); Eponymous (EP); Name partner; Eponymic; Eponymously
eponym
n.
1.
Surname, cognomen.
2.
Mythical name.
eponym
['?p?n?m]
¦ noun a word or name derived from the name of a person.
?a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc. is named.
Derivatives
eponymous adjective
Origin
C19: from Gk eponumos 'given as a name, giving one's name to someone or something', from epi 'upon' + onoma 'name'.
Eponym
·noun ·Alt. of Eponyme.
Wikipedia
Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic.
Examples of use of eponym
1. Later in the year the center‘s eponym, the former Democratic presidential nominee George S.
2. Lewis Museum, so named because its deceased black eponym contributed $5 million, said black Americans volunteer to work as well as give money.
3. But in Britain you can believe such paranoid, irrational gibberish and not merely be tolerated and excused the eponym ‘barking madman’ but actually be invited to divulge your stupidity to the Prime Minister personally.