eponym

美 [ˈepənɪm]英 [ˈepənɪm]
  • n.名祖(姓名或名称被用以命名地方、发明、发现等的人或物)
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noun

technical 术语名祖(姓名或名称被用以命名地方、发明、发现等的人或物)
a person or thing, or the name of a person or thing, from which a place, an invention, a discovery, etc. gets its name

noun

1
the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down
2
the person for whom something is named
Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople

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  1. The introduction is mainly about the definition of eponym , and emphasizing its development and synchrony with language .

    前言主要是名祖名词的定义,阐述名祖名词的发展和存在现状,并强调了名祖名词始终与语言的发展共时。

  2. Being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym . As a writer she was on a par with the great novelists .

    属于齐名的,关于齐名的或产生齐名的。她是与伟大小说家齐名的作家。

  3. The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named ; Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople . In the Fourth Crusade the Venetians took over Constantinople and established a line of Latin emperors .

    被命名为某物的人名;君士坦丁堡与君士坦丁一世齐名。在第四次十字军东征时,威尼斯人占领了君士坦丁堡,并拥立另一支的拉丁皇帝。