Word "EPONYM" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
Examples:
Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the person for whom something is named
Examples:
Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople

Crossword Clues for EPONYM

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Clue Source Date
Setter returned carrying £25 Hoover, for one The Telegraph Toughie 29 Aug 2025
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 31 Jul 2025
Invention or place named after a person Puzzler Backwords 28 Jul 2025
Sadly my pen has nothing inside to provide word named after someone (6)
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Jul 2025
Place named after a person (6)
One for whom something is named Premier Sunday 25 May 2025
Place name derived from a person Puzzler Backwords 18 Apr 2025
Term from a name Newsday 27 Mar 2025
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 12 Mar 2025
Invention or place named after a person Puzzler Backwords 28 Feb 2025
Ohm or joule Eugene Sheffer 24 Feb 2025
I'm surprised by refusal to return Caesar salad, say The Telegraph Toughie 22 Jan 2025
America perhaps putting horse into space? The Times Cryptic 17 Jan 2025
Fake money to procure power diesel, say (6)
Term for a place name derived from the name of a person (6)
Money and first place maybe will get a city named after you (6)
Could this be Jane Eyre writer's emphatic refusal to retire? The Telegraph Toughie 01 Nov 2024
His name is the book title, or poem written out about New York (6)
Georg Ohm or James Watt Newsday 12 Sep 2024
Achilles, for the Achilles tendon Universal 19 Aug 2024
Kind of dash astride horse in St Albans or Telford? The Times Cryptic 27 Jul 2024
Brummie's refusal to do a turn as the title character (6) The Guardian Cryptic 02 Jul 2024
Invention or place named after a person Puzzler Backwords 21 Jun 2024
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 15 Jun 2024
Any item whose name derives from a person
Money initially paid to redesign atlas, perhaps (6)
Zeppelin, perhaps lifting me over mount (6) Puzzler Cryptic 24 Apr 2024
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 30 Mar 2024
Place name that comes from person in the pony market (6)
Distinguishing title
Word like "boycott" or "Fahrenheit"
See me backing horse entered in Derby for example
See me backing horse entered in Derby for example (6)
A person for whom something is named, or a thing named for a person (6)
Person for whom a thing is named Premier Sunday 11 Feb 2024
Tantalus, to tantalize
One nominally involved? Gosh, no, the reverse of that The Times Cryptic 02 Feb 2024
Distinguishing title needing £25 in European money
Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Jan 2024
Ohm, for one Eugene Sheffer 09 Jan 2024
Character in book, play, same as title (6)
The seventh earl of Cardigan, for the word "cardigan" Universal 19 Apr 2023
Author's negative response is reflected in titular character The Guardian Cryptic 17 Apr 2023
This writer's emphatic refusal to withdraw title character The Telegraph Toughie 16 Feb 2023
Person after whom something is named Wall Street Journal 15 Dec 2022
Sandwich, for example, set me back around £25! The Times Cryptic 07 Dec 2022
Word derived from a name The Times Concise 08 Nov 2022
Setter's firm refusal to retire in Melbourne or Adelaide? The Telegraph Toughie 18 Oct 2022
Hoover, say, setting me back about £25 The Times Cryptic 09 May 2022
Setter about to eat £25 Caesar salad, perhaps
Setter about to eat £25 Caesar salad, perhaps The Guardian Cryptic 06 May 2022
Name juvenile in centre of demo
European horse primarily mentioned in Hamlet, maybe?
Dame Nellie Melba, for Melba toast Wall Street Journal 01 Nov 2021
Cardigan, perhaps around £25, yours truly returned
I'm surprised by refusal to back name-giver
Money including pence changed on Mahatma Gandhi Road, say
Marcel Bich, for Bic Universal 17 Oct 2020
Jacuzzi, for example Wall Street Journal 12 Sep 2020
Person after whom something is named The Times Concise 16 May 2020
Source for many units of physics Newsday 16 Apr 2020
English maiden keeping animal for riding: Black Beauty is one
Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test Universal 12 Oct 2019
One turned up clutching £25 for Tom Jones?
Character who gives a play, etc its title The Guardian Speedy 28 Jul 2019
Name derived from a person Eugene Sheffer 25 May 2019
Label derived from name of space occupied by horse
Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test
Fahrenheit or Celsius Newsday 24 Nov 2018
Word derived from a name Universal 20 Nov 2018
Name for Goliath up astride horse
Name derived from a name
Name derived from a name
Name-lending person Premier Sunday 15 Jul 2018
Noun formed after a person
George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel New York Times 19 Jun 2018
Silhouette's one small horse breaking into dash
Franz Mesmer, for "mesmerize" Universal 06 Mar 2018
George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel
Word derived from a name
My peon is excited - he's a person after whom something is named
Name of a thing derived from a person Universal 23 Oct 2017
Making money gets first priority — an example is Washington
Word derived from a person's name Universal 23 Jun 2017
Tresses Canadiana 01 May 2017
James Parkinson or Alois Alzheimer New York Times 02 Feb 2017
Word derived from someone's name Universal 15 Jan 2017
Word derived from a person's name
Word derived from someone's name
James Parkinson or Alois Alzheimer
Name of a thing derived from a person
Henry Ford, e.g LA Times Daily 16 Dec 2016
Open my new sandwich, say
Horse breaking into a sort of dash in Dallas or Washington?
Horse breaking into a sort of dash in Dallas or Washington? The Times Cryptic 15 Nov 2016
Item name derived from a person Universal 18 Oct 2016
Name derived from a person Universal 20 Jul 2016
Baron De La Warr or William Penn Wall Street Journal 13 Jul 2016
Henry Ford, e.g.
Name derived from a person
Tesla or Volta, e.g.
Namesake Canadiana 21 Dec 2015
Sousaphone, for one LA Times Daily 21 Aug 2015
Taken name of horse amongst outsiders in Epsom
Record of US city monument's first distinguishing title The Telegraph Toughie 14 Jul 2015
Word derived from a person's name USA Today 13 Apr 2015
Word derived from a person's name
Washington or Lincoln, many times over
Sousaphone, for one
See 16-Across New York Times 21 Aug 2014
See 16-Across
Person for whom something is named
Earl of Sandwich, e.g.
Arnold Palmer or Shirley Temple, drinkwise
Penn, to Pennsylvania
Jim Beam or Jack Daniel
Euclid, vis-à-vis geometry
Louis Braille or Louis Chevrolet
Watt or Ohm, e.g.
Euclid, vis- -vis geometry
Name-giver
Amerigo Vespucci, vis-à-vis America
General Shrapnel or Burnside
Rob Roy or Shirley Temple
The Earl of Sandwich, for one
Amerigo Vespucci, vis- -vis America
Karl Benz or Henry Ford
Karl Benz or Henry Ford
Person from whom something takes its name
Person for whom something is named
Shirley Temple, to Shirley Temples, for one
Word derived from a name
Penn, to Pennsylvania
Rudolf Diesel, for one
Person from whom something is named
Romulus, vis- -vis Rome
Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius
Romulus to Rome, e.g.
General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro
Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
Name identified with a place
Shirley Temple or Tom Collins
Penn, vis-à-vis Pennsylvania
Sam Houston, to Houston
Penn, vis- -vis Pennsylvania
What Romulus was to Rome
Name derivation
Ampère or Watt
Romulus, vis- -vis Rome, e.g.
Monroe for Monrovia
Named derived from a person
"Mae West" for "life jacket"
Rudolf Diesel, re the diesel
Romulus, for one
Romulus, vis- -vis Rome
Thursday from Thor <P>e.g.
Name source
Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
Name giver of a sort
Person for whom a nation or city is named
Name giver
What Penn is to Pennsylvania.
Ohm or joule, e.g.
Saxophone or sandwich
Presumed ancestor of a race, nation, etc.
What William Penn is to Pennsylvania.
Hellen, to Hellenes.
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