Eponym : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Eponym	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eponym n the person for whom something is named; "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople" the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); "Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eponym \Ep"onym\, Eponyme \Ep"onyme\, n. [Cf. F. [82]ponyme. See {Eponymous}.] 1. 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. A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.