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Definition of Eponymous
1. Adjective. Being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym.
Definition of Eponymous
1. a. Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
Definition of Eponymous
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eponymous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eponymous
Literary usage of Eponymous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"After his death he became an eponymous hero. To the present day his tomb is
visited as a shrine by the market people, and his name is invoked on all ..."
2. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"eponymous official of the State. His official duties comprised the supervision
of family matters, protection of parents against their children, ..."
3. An Epitome of the Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece: From the Earliest by Henry Fynes Clinton (1851)
"I am not inconsistent with myself in asserting the reality of Hyllus or Cadmus,
for I have never admitted any universal rule concerning eponymous persons. ..."
4. Pausanias's Description of Greeceby Pausanias by Pausanias (1898)
"5 sg, ; eponymous heroes, i. 5. 2-5, x. ю. i ; nine annual archons of A. iii.
it. 2, iv. 15. i, elected by lot, iv. 5. 10; annual Council of Five Hundred, ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Hastings, Samuel Rolles Driver, John Alexander Selbie, Henry Barclay Swete (1908)
"... the eponymous ancestor of an Arabian tribe whose identity is uncertain.
This tribe appears in Is 60" as engaged in the transport of gold and ..."
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