Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or constituting an eponym.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Giving one's name to a tribe, people, city, year, or period; regarded as the founder or originator.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym
Etymologies
- From Greek epōnumos; see eponym.
Examples
“The one whose name was used to designate the year is known as eponymous, meaning “giving his name to.””
“jimmy, ever since the REM album named 'Eponymous' dropped back in '88, I've had a life-long dream to use the word eponymous in blog comment post.”
“(I have been waiting for a chance to use the word eponymous for so long!) # Ragged Boyon 27 May 2009 at 8: 07 am”
“For me the best has to be H R Giger's creation ... no I refuse to misuse the word eponymous ... from the film of that name.”
“Therefore I strongly support the idea of eponymous reviewing.”
“Then, as if that isn't self-conscious and self-referential i.e., modern enough, one of the characters disdainfully calls the eponymous seagull a symbol.”
“It's well-written, as everything Erin writes, but "eponymous" isn't what leaps to mind.”
“Her name is Silversprings, after the eponymous Fleetwood Mac song damn, I just love using a word like "eponymous".”
“He wrote first to Natalya Dreadnought, author of Tick, pointing out in a mild way that 'eponymous' applies to a character or object which gives a work its name, not to the name derived from the character.”
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories
“Plus the adorable survivor WALL·E, in his eponymous film of 2008.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eponymous’.
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Words I Used to Know
Words that make you go "I know that word...what the heck does it mean?!?
pulchritude, sanguine, trenchant, picaresque, gloaming, perfidious, confabulation, epiphany, importune, fulminate, efficacious, maladroit and 111 more...
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fancy essay words
hiatus, ontology, exegesis, hermeneutics, dialectics, demiurge, ascertain, contention, eschatological, synecdoche, centripetal, centrifugal and 86 more...
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words i should know
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for school!
squally, monetization, honorificabilitud..., hornswoggle, collywobbles, slangwhanger, filibuster, cliona, beknow, gallimaufry, sylvan, aide-de-camp and 31 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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my words
interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1074 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 237 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2536 more...
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Evolution
darwin, hms beagle, galapagos, evolution, natural selection, select for, confer, survival advantage, environmental pre..., mutation, genome, homozygous and 193 more...
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west ham fool
a list
corollary, pragmatic, desultory, insouciance, hubris, eponymous, paradox, intermezzo, calumny, anodyne, illitterati, subjective and 96 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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ofravens' omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 866 more...
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New words
Words that are new to me.
autostrada, gimlet, clyster, gravida, skelped, nacreous, susurrus, intransigent, puissant, turbid, plangent, fungible and 99 more...
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Daily Words
wrought, in the offing, crony, eponymous, beckon, vinaigrette, peddle, per se, peremptory, nebulous, incandescent, hoary and 17 more...
And, er, womonymous and aptronymous, but I'm not convinced those are real words. ;-) Oct 3, 2007