Definitions for eponym

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eponym ep·o·nym

Spelling: [ep-uh-nim]

IPA: /ˈɛp ə nɪm/

Eponym is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in eponym (emnopy).

Definitions for eponym

noun

1. a person, real or imaginary, from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to take its name:
2. a word based on or derived from a person's name.
3. any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office.

Origin of eponym

First recorded in 1840-50; back formation from eponymous

Examples for eponym

eponym, ep′o-nim, n. a mythical personage created to account for the name of a tribe or people: a special title.

And in this respect Herakles was the eponym and patron of an order which existed throughout Doric Hellas.

As much is suggested by the following entry in an eponym list.

The word 'Abram' is merely an eponym—it means 'exalted father.'

The case is different with Herakles, the patron, eponym, and ancestor of Dorian Hellas.

This, however, as we learn from the eponym Canon, was not all.

As for this eponym thing, why Saint Augustine called attention to it fifteen hundred years ago.

Xanthus, however, puts Torrhebus in the place of Tyrsenus, and makes him the eponym of a district in Lydia.

Sardanapalus, the eponym of Oriental luxury, furnishes a good subject for this style of composition.