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Webster 1913 Edition
Eponymous
E-pon′y-mous
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK];
ἐπί
upon, to + [GREEK] for [GREEK] name.] Relating to an eponym; giving one’s name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that
eponymous
persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote.
Definition 2024
eponymous
eponymous
English
Adjective
eponymous (comparative more eponymous, superlative most eponymous)
- Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.
- Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book.
- Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.
- The language Limburgish is named after the eponymous provinces in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Translations
relating to the person after which something is named
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