'Eponymous' definitions:

Definition of 'eponymous'

From: WordNet
adjective
Being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym [syn: eponymous, eponymic]

Definition of 'Eponymous'

From: GCIDE
  • Eponymous \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. [1913 Webster]
  • What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? --Grote. [1913 Webster]

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