EPONYM; EPONYME

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

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


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