namesake.
An entity that lends its name to another entity.
Meaning & usage
An entity that lends its name to another entity.
An entity that lends its name to another entity. A person with the same name as another.
The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
An entity that lends its name to another entity. A person with the same name as another. One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.
Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
An entity that lends its name to another entity. A person with the same name as another. One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.
Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
Where this word comes from
Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
To name (somebody) after somebody else.
Where this word comes from
Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
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