Definition of Eponimous
E*pon"y*mous (?), a. [Gr. &?;;
'epi` upon, to + &?; for &?; name.] Relating to an
eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the
like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the
Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are
to be canceled as fictions? Grote.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Of, relating to, or being the person after which something is named
- Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book of the same name
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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