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.
Name of a person or group of persons after or for whom a place is named. Examples: Iago (James) in Santiago; Everest in Mount Everest; M_sa (Moses) in W_d_ M_sa. The corresponding term in French is ethnonym.
The name of a person or place, whether historical or mythical, from which a place, country, city, person, or tribe, etc., derives its name.
A word derived from a person's name. Examples: sideburns (from Ambrose E.Burnside), cardigan (from the Seventh Earl of Cardigan), sandwich (from the Seventh Earl of Sandwich).
the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named; "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople"
a name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great
a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name
a name derived from a name, e
a name or term derived from a persons name
a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name
a person (real or fictitious) whose
a person whose name has given rise to the name of a people, place, etc
a proper name from which the name of something (a thing, place, work, etc
a similar phenomenon where a real or fictional person's name is given to something
a word derived from someone's name
a word derived from the name of a real, fictional, mythical or spurious character or person
a word derived or associated from some-ones name
a word named for person (or a person who bequeaths their name to a word)
a word that is derived from a person's name, like "sandwich
A name derived from a person, without regard to whether he or she is fictitious, mysterious, or legendary. Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker, Michael Jordan, and Barbie are eponymous trade names.
is a word formed from a person’s name. Examples include "pasteurization" from Louis Pasteur; "sandwich" from the Earl of Sandwich; "guillotine" from Dr. Guillotin.
name derived from a person's name.
That for which a taxon is named. e.g. Astragalus alpinus lepagei Rouss. See Taxon 32(1): 92-93.
A name of a drug, structure, or disease based on or derived from the name of a person.
Something named after someone. For example, a condition called Shiel's syndrome might be named after someone named Shiel who discovered it or described and clearly delineated it.
A supposed ancestor (eponymous ancestor) whose name is the same as, or related to, the name of a later group, tribe or nation. See Chapter 2.
a person from whom a nation, city, theory etc is said to get its name. Darwin is the eponym of Darwinism
An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, who has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery, or other item. An eponymous person is the person referred to by the eponym. In contemporary English, the term eponymous is often used to mean self-titled.