namesake
Americannoun
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a person or thing named after another or whose name is given to another person or thing.
Little Dora lay asleep in the arms of her namesake, great-aunt Dora.
The memory of Robert and Signe McMichael is honored in their namesake, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
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a person or thing having the same name as another.
The cities of Hyderabad, Pakistan, and Hyderabad, India, are namesakes.
noun
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a person or thing named after another
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a person or thing with the same name as another
Etymology
Origin of namesake
First recorded in 1640–50; alteration of name's ( name + 's 1 ) sake 1
Example Sentences
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The facility’s namesake harbored no illusions that his donation might one day turn the downtrodden Hoosiers into the country’s top team.
Craft beer drinkers know Pliny the Elder as the inspiration for his namesake double IPA.
From Los Angeles Times
There, she became the namesake of the Ai Project, a research programme into the "chimpanzee mind".
From BBC
Net sales jumped 9.2% compared with a year earlier to $1.47 billion, driven by strength across its namesake and Pink brands, as well as its beauty offerings, the company said.
The experience taught Boone that it was better to focus on the two Biscoff products the company knew best: its namesake cookies and a cookie butter spread the company started selling in 2008.
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