Synonyms for eponym
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.
Related words
- Word family
- eponymic eponymist eponymous
- Phrases
- proprietary eponym
Forms
- Plural
- eponyms → names, name-sakes, eponymists, epithets…
Example sentences
- nickname "John Doe" is a nickname for an anonymous person.
- epitome I am the epitome of toxicity all in one individual.
- epithet Tom was fired for using a racial epithet at work.
By length
- 4 letters
- name1
- 6 letters
- deonym
- 7 letters
- epitome4, epithet3
- 8 letters
- nickname2
- 9 letters
- eponymist
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (epitome4 = 4 syllables).