Meaning

2 senses
  1. Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.

    Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.

    Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book.

    eponymisch, gleichnamig, namensgebend

    одноимённыйodnoimjónnyj

    однойме́ннийodnojménnyj

    being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym

  2. Of a thing: named after a person or entity.

    The American singer-songwriter Madonna released her eponymous album in 1983.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I bought their eponymous album.

  2. Skura named her son after the eponymous ancestor of the Ayt Yanni tribe in Kabylie, Algeria.

  3. The name Gaia for planet Earth was coined by the scientist James Lovelock from the eponymous Greek goddess.

    deDer Name Gaia, nach der gleichnamigen griechischen Göttin, für den Planeten Erde wurde von dem Wissenschaftler James Lovelock geprägt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Ordubad is the second largest city of Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the capital of an eponymous district.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named:
Русский
By meaning 1
of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named:

Forms

more eponymous, most eponymous
Comparativemore eponymous Lesson
Superlativemost eponymous Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym:eponymic

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
eponymous — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto