# eponymous

Pronunciation: US say "uh-PON-uh-muhs" /əˈpɑnəməs/; UK say "i-PON-i-muhs" /ɪˈpɒnɪməs/

## Adjective

1. Of a thing: named after a person or entity, as an album titled with its artist's name is.
   - Simple: Named after a person or thing, like an album that has the singer's own name.
   - _After three hit records, the duo finally released an eponymous album._
   - _Diners line up outside the chef's eponymous restaurant to try her signature dish._
2. Being or relating to the person or thing after which someone or something is named, and so serving as an eponym.
   - Simple: Being the person or thing that something is named after, like the hero a book is named for.
   - _The novel follows its eponymous heroine from a Kansas farm to the courts of Europe._
   - _The restaurant's eponymous chef still greets diners at the door most nights._

## Origin

Ancient Greek epṓnumos, meaning "surnamed," "named in a significant manner," or "giving one's name to something," combined with the English adjective suffix -ous.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/eponymous (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).