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
- eponym + -ous (Wiktionary)
- From Greek epōnumos; see eponym. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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.”
“The cast is the crème de la crème of indie heavy hitters; Lou Taylor Pucci (who earned his cred-card in thumbsucker), Nora Zhetner (got hers in Brick), Kristen Bell (First big screen lead but of course she is best known as the eponymous heroine of Veronica Mars) and Eddie Kaye Thomas who, interestingly enough, was mean to me in high school back when he still went by Eddie Kovelsky.”
“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.”
“The claim that these names are eponymous, that is to say, that fabled ancestors are assigned to various nations, as Rome was wont to consider”
“The sections called eponymous are named after Rishis or saints mentioned in the Vedas and other scriptures and are found among the”
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
“He did just that in 1895 with The Time Machine, the novel that coined the eponymous term-but not the idea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eponymous’.
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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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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for school!
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brian's biffs
melancholy, bucolic, visceral, cacophony, burlesque, exogenous, epiphany, monetization, accretive, opulent, splendid, seismic and 10 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 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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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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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 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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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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Joe's list
Fissiparous Weekly Standard Nigeria a fissiparous country 3/2012
fissiparous, inchoate, punctilious, synecdoche, apocryphal, superadd, pedant, pedagogy, astigmatic, inter alia, aphoristically, eponymous and 131 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 1402 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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words i should know
perspicacity, salubrious, eponymous, exigent, logolepsy, palindrome
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eponymous.
reesetee Ooh! Missed that one, seanahan! Oct 4, 2007
seanahan As in WordOnymous. Oct 4, 2007
reesetee Wow. Wordonymous. Oct 3, 2007
uselessness Oh, and this list. :-P Oct 3, 2007
uselessness And pseudonymous, synonymous, antonymous, homonymous, heteronymous, antagonymous, contranymous, meronymous, holonymous, hypernymous, hyponymous, capitonymous, acronymous, toponymous, backronymous, exonymous, patronymous, matronymous, and retronymous.
And, er, womonymous and aptronymous, but I'm not convinced those are real words. ;-) Oct 3, 2007
skipvia See also onymous and anonymous. Oct 3, 2007
seanmeade eponymous: great REM IRS-years compilation album Mar 26, 2007