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What does eponym mean?

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Noun
  1. The name of a real or fictitious person whose name has, or is thought to have, given rise to the name of a particular item.
  2. A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name.
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Little before Phan Rang I stopped in Thap Cham to visit Po Klong Garai Towers, Chams southernmost towers of the eponym empire.
Work on and with the eponym of our foundation are also among the central tasks of the Academy.
April 15th marks the 260th anniversary of the publication of the great dictionary written by Samuel Johnson, the eponym of this column.
They would have integrated Malayan Union at the time of the independence of the eponym peninsula.
The old eponym city is worth a visit to admire Sino-Portuguese architecture of its prestigious past.
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an eponym for a heterogeneous group of immune-mediated peripheral neuropathies.

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