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Definition of Exonym
1. Noun. A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to. ¹
2. Noun. A place name or a personal name''Exonyms and Endonyms'' at www.geocities.com/agihard/ILA-exonym-talk-text.doc page 3 used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as ''Moscow'' in English for the city called ''Moskva'' in Russian, or such as ''Charles'' in English for historical people called ''Karl'' or ''Carl'' in their Germanic languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exonym
1. a name for a people used by outsiders and not by the people themselves [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exonym
Literary usage of Exonym
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest, Resources, and People in Bulungan: Elements for a History of by Bernard Sellato (2001)
"(The exonym Abai may mean 'those of downstream' or 'those of the river banks.')
Those remaining 'Punan' (again, a cultural, as much as ethnic, ..."
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