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hodonymy

hodonymy

English

Noun

hodonymy (uncountable)

  1. The naming of streets and roads.
    • 1976, Raymond Chevallier, Roman roads, page 239:
      The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).
    • 1995, Onoma - Volume 32, page 9:
      Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.
    • 1996, Ernst Eichler, Name Studies, ISBN 311020343X, page 1482:
      The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.