eponymous

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The information is provided here for historical record and for completeness, and what you choose to do with that information is completely up to you. caveat: without the 'emptor' it just means 'beware' or 'caution'. eponymous (noun), eponymously (adjective): in a musical. discographical context it means 'self titled'.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or constituting an eponym.

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  • The information is provided here for historical record and for completeness, and what you choose to do with that information is completely up to you. caveat: without the 'emptor' it just means 'beware' or 'caution'. eponymous (noun), eponymously (adjective): in a musical. discographical context it means 'self titled'. —  DISCOGRAPHY: Genesis, by Scott McMahan
  • Since the last three types of marks seldom become eponymous, this article will concentrate on trademarks identifying products, although the same legal principles generally apply to all these terms. has become a burgeoning source of new words in our language. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
  • The store's general manager, Dean James, is an Agatha Award-winning author, while the store itself was the inspiration for the eponymous bookshop in Carolyn Hart's well-loved Death on Demand series. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • There was only a mule-cart, and nothing behind that that I could see. —  Madam Will You Talk
  • 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
 

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  1. From Greek epōnumos; see eponym.

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  1. from Greek ἐπώνυμος, given as a name: see eponym.
 

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/ɛˈpɑnɪməs/
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