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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Derivation of a name of a city, country, era, institution, or other place or thing from that of a person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office, dignity, or prerogatives of an eponymos.
- noun The period or year of office of an eponymos: used, as at Athens, as a unit of reckoning and reference for dates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun semantics The
semantic relation ofeponyms ; the quality of beingeponymous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person
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Examples
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Next week: It's the eponymy, stupid, or Men of re-noun.
Style Invitational Week 891: Word palindromes, plus limerick results The Empress 2010
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Koch ' s Disease, for instance, was an instance of simple eponymy.
To Put It Another Way Eric Felten 2010
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It is dated the first of Nisan (March) in the eponymy of Shamash dananni, probably 644.
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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.
Rational Review 2009
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But eponymy doesn't necessarily involve the conscious act of naming.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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