Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Derivation of a name of a city, country, era, institution, or other place or thing from that of a person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The office, dignity, or prerogatives of an eponymos.
- n. The period or year of office of an eponymos: used, as at Athens, as a unit of reckoning and reference for dates.
Wiktionary
- n. The semantic relation of eponyms; the quality of being eponymous.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person
Examples
“Next week: It's the eponymy, stupid, or Men of re-noun.”
The Washington Post: Style Invitational Week 891: Word palindromes, plus limerick results
“Koch ' s Disease, for instance, was an instance of simple eponymy.”
“It is dated the first of Nisan (March) in the eponymy of Shamash dananni, probably 644.”
“Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet.”
“But eponymy doesn't necessarily involve the conscious act of naming.”
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heroic mot-i(c)ons
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