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List of places named after people; Lists of places by eponym; Lists of things named after places; List of plant genera named for people (A–C) List of plant genera named for people (D–J) List of plant genera named for people (K–P) List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z) List of awards named after people
An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named. Since many medical conditions, sports moves, bridge and chess techniques, buildings, prizes, and other things have been named after people, these are not included in this category, as categorization on the basis of having been named for a person is considered to be overcategorization ...
The mythological Greek hero Orion is the eponym of the constellation Orion, shown here, and thus indirectly of the Orion spacecraft. [1] An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic.
An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. [1] Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
Think the Cooper’s hawk, Townsend’s warbler and Bachman’s sparrow, for example. Bird names: Some birds named after people will get new names to avoid troubling pasts of namesakes
The teddy bear, for example, was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, because of a popular story in which the then-President objected to cruel treatment of a bear by hunters. [ 10 ] The fedora hat may be considered the "namesake" of a fictional character, Princess Fédora Romanoff, from an 1887 play, Fédora , by Victorien Sardou.
Some of the eponyms are given by people adhering to the movements mentioned, others by outsiders. Social and political. Ambedkarism, after B. R. Ambedkar;