Meaning

1 senses
  1. An external name for a place, people or a language used by outgroup members (such as foreigners) instead of ingroup members (such as native-language speakers).

    Fremdbezeichnung, Exonym, Exonymon

    экзо́нимekzónim, иноназва́ниеinonazvánije

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
name used by foreigners:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
name used by foreigners:

Origin

From exo- (“outside”) + -onym (“name”).

From exo- (“outside”) + -onym (“name”).

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Forms

plural: exonyms
Singularexonym
Pluralexonyms

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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