Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to an eponym: as, an eponymic name or legend.
- Name-giving, mythically or historically; from whom the name of a country, people, or period is derived: as, Hellen was the eponymic ancestor of the Hellenes or Greeks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
eponymous .
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- adjective Of or relating to an
eponym .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym
Etymologies
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Examples
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News at Eleven: It's his use of poets as a lens that makes this opening section more than a story of Chile's struggles; moreover, Martin Espada suggests in the opening eponymic poem that poetry has an unusual importance for Chileans.
Archive 2006-11-01 Rus Bowden 2006
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News at Eleven: It's his use of poets as a lens that makes this opening section more than a story of Chile's struggles; moreover, Martin Espada suggests in the opening eponymic poem that poetry has an unusual importance for Chileans.
News at Eleven: It's his use of poets as a lens Rus Bowden 2006
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Asshur, who was originally the eponymic god of the capital of Assyria (also called Asshur), thus became a national god, and was place at the head of the Assyrian pantheon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Bæda also mentions a place called Tunna ceaster, so named from an abbot Tunna, who exists merely for the sake of a legend, and is clearly as unhistorical as his piratical compeer Hrof -- a wild guess of the eponymic sort with which we are all so familiar in Greek literature.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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Mark Bagley had begun to stir consideration during a stint on an early 1990s contemporary and eponymic phenom comic book known as
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From the later eponymic monthly publication, the silhoullettes from aspects of 1998 comics and the same year's social climate imprinted into a break out on-going title.
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If the eponymic character has not been proven to be either fictional or historical, that doesn't really matter as we tend to idealize more the undefined.
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