Usually means: Individuals sharing the same name.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. namesakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. namesakes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. namesakes: Vocabulary.com
  4. namesake's, namesakes: Wordnik
  5. namesakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. namesakes: Wiktionary
  7. namesakes: Dictionary.com
  8. namesakes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Namesakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Namesakes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See namesake as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (namesake)

noun:  An entity that lends its name to another entity.
noun:  A person with the same name as another; often, a parent or the child named after them.
noun:  One who is named after another.
noun:  One for whom another is named.
noun:  (by extension) Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
verb:  (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.
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