Usually means: Naming something after someone else.
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  1. eponymy: Merriam-Webster
  2. eponymy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eponymy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eponymy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eponymy: Vocabulary.com
  6. eponymy: Wordnik
  7. eponymy: Wiktionary
  8. eponymy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. eponymy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Eponymy, eponymy: Dictionary.com
  11. Eponymy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Eponymy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. eponymy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Eponymy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. eponymy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. eponymy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. eponymy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. eponymy: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eponymy: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eponymy)

▸ noun:  (semantics) The semantic relation of eponyms; the quality of being eponymous.

Similar:
troponymy, epididymous, egophoricity, endosemiotic, etymon, exosemiotic, endophoric, onomatoid, denominative, psychosomaticity, more...

Opposite:
antonomasia, anonymous, unnamed, unknown

Types:
synecdoche, metonymy, euphemism, litotes, hyperbole, more...

Phrases:
Stigler's law of eponymy, more...

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Similar:
troponymy, epididymous, egophoricity, endosemiotic, etymon, exosemiotic, endophoric, onomatoid, denominative, psychosomaticity, more...

Opposite:
antonomasia, anonymous, unnamed, unknown

Types:
synecdoche, metonymy, euphemism, litotes, hyperbole, more...

Phrases:
Stigler's law of eponymy, more...



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