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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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Work on and with the eponym of our foundation are also among the central tasks of the Academy.
It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
Although benign congenital hypotonia subsequently came to be known by the eponym of Walton's hypotonia, Walton was not the first to describe this entity.
They would have integrated Malayan Union at the time of the independence of the eponym peninsula.
April 15th marks the 260th anniversary of the publication of the great dictionary written by Samuel Johnson, the eponym of this column.
The word 'hippo', 'mall' in the Bamana language, is an eponym for the country itself.

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