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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Cf. F.

éponyme

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The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name;

as, Hellen is an

eponym

of the Hellenes

A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.

See also: éponyme

eponyme ‎(plural eponymes)