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Definition of eponym noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

eponym

 noun
noun
NAmE//ˈɛpənɪm//
 
(technology)
 
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a person or thing, or the name of a person or thing, from which a place, an invention, a discovery, etc. gets its name
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