namesake
IPA: nˈeɪmseɪk
noun
- (originally) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.
- (by extension) A ship or a building that is named after someone or something.
- A person with the same name as another.
verb
- (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.
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Examples of "namesake" in Sentences
- The Equine Anal blog's anatomical namesake is quite apropos as a description of the vessel and the product which it delivers.
- We were pleasantly surprised to find that it was comfortable and welcoming though slightly odd - just like I hope its namesake is perceived!
- I long again to see you all, and to know how you proceed with poor Charles, and whither my dear little namesake is likely to loose his milky treasure. —
- The genius of all things iconic, like the Birkin bag and its namesake, is that it is less about a label and a trend and all about the person carrying it.
- But do you really want your kid to live the rest of his life knowing his namesake is no, not a cherished family member, but an effeminate fantasy vampire that every girl between the ages of 8 and 20 was obsessed with?
- The Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG), a huge real estate conglomerate through which Mustafa made his billions, doesn't want any stockholders to worry just because the company's founder and namesake is under a death sentence.
- Enter Saphho Ritsos, the Trust operative who, based on her namesake, is intended to be insusceptible to Cankar's irresistible manly charms - the result of him producing "eleven times as many pheromones as ordinary males."
- The show's central fixture and namesake is a 22-foot-wide cartographic wonder from 2004 that's divided into four nearly identical white-on-black canvases depicting Calgary, Charleston, Kansas City and Philadelphia as geographic neighbors.
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