{ } n. [ Cf. F. éponyme. See Eponymous. ] 1. The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Eponymous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` upon, to + &unr_; for &unr_; name. ] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a surname given after some person or thing. ] The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]