Eponymous
adjective
Relating to the person or thing that something is named after.
The band released their eponymous debut album.
Often appears as...
- eponymous album
- eponymous character
adjective
Relating to the person or thing that something is named after.
The band released their eponymous debut album.
Often appears as...
- eponymous album
- eponymous character
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Pro Tip 1/3Naming Origin
Used when something is named after a person, often its creator or someone it's dedicated to.
The Ford car company is eponymous, named after its founder Henry Ford.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Usage
Often used in arts and entertainment to indicate works named after a central character or theme.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' is the play's eponymous protagonist.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Confusion
Don't confuse 'eponymous' with 'anonymous'; 'eponymous' always indicates a known name.
Unlike an anonymous donor, the eponymous sponsor of the event was well-known.
Pro Tip 1/3Naming Origin
Used when something is named after a person, often its creator or someone it's dedicated to.
The Ford car company is eponymous, named after its founder Henry Ford.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Usage
Often used in arts and entertainment to indicate works named after a central character or theme.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' is the play's eponymous protagonist.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Confusion
Don't confuse 'eponymous' with 'anonymous'; 'eponymous' always indicates a known name.
Unlike an anonymous donor, the eponymous sponsor of the event was well-known.
Pro Tip 1/3Naming Origin
Used when something is named after a person, often its creator or someone it's dedicated to.
The Ford car company is eponymous, named after its founder Henry Ford.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Usage
Often used in arts and entertainment to indicate works named after a central character or theme.
Shakespeare's 'Othello' is the play's eponymous protagonist.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Confusion
Don't confuse 'eponymous' with 'anonymous'; 'eponymous' always indicates a known name.
Unlike an anonymous donor, the eponymous sponsor of the event was well-known.
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How to create a great...
first select what type of name you want there are seven different categories of names and pretty much every brand in the world falls within one of these seven categories eponymous names like disney and burberry work by embodying the vision and beliefs of their founders these names are okay if you're feeling lazy or just have a big ego
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Your brain is more than...
or are they just little digital robots Charles Darwin believed that insects have emotion and express them in their behaviors as he wrote in his 1872 monograph on the expression of the emotions in man and animals and my eponymous colleague Seymour Benzer
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The unexpected benefit...
a dream to put a person on the moon by the end of the decade. The eponymous moonshot. No one knew if it was possible to do but he made sure a plan was put in place to do it if it was possible. That's how great dreams are.
Video examples
How to create a great...
first select what type of name you want there are seven different categories of names and pretty much every brand in the world falls within one of these seven categories eponymous names like disney and burberry work by embodying the vision and beliefs of their founders these names are okay if you're feeling lazy or just have a big ego
Video examples
Your brain is more than...
or are they just little digital robots Charles Darwin believed that insects have emotion and express them in their behaviors as he wrote in his 1872 monograph on the expression of the emotions in man and animals and my eponymous colleague Seymour Benzer
Video examples
The unexpected benefit...
a dream to put a person on the moon by the end of the decade. The eponymous moonshot. No one knew if it was possible to do but he made sure a plan was put in place to do it if it was possible. That's how great dreams are.
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Quote examples
Ruth Ware
English Author
I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.
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Petina Gappah
Zimbabwean Writer
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
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Nell Scovell
American Journalist
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Peter York
British Journalist
In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.
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Peter York
British Journalist
Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?
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Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Christopher Isherwood's eponymous character in 'Mr Norris Takes the Train' reminds me of Boris Johnson, who seems to have stumbled and bumbled into power.
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Bret Stephens
American Journalist
Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.
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Ruth Ware
English Author
I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at the heart of the novel is what happened to Maxim's first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, and it's unravelled with the pacing and finesse of the finest psychological thrillers out there.
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Petina Gappah
Zimbabwean Writer
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
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Nell Scovell
American Journalist
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Peter York
British Journalist
In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.
Quote examples
Peter York
British Journalist
Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?
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Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Christopher Isherwood's eponymous character in 'Mr Norris Takes the Train' reminds me of Boris Johnson, who seems to have stumbled and bumbled into power.
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Bret Stephens
American Journalist
Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.
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