eponym
- n the person for whom something is named
Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople - n the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
Down's syndrome is an eponym for the English physician John Down
- He sits on your desk looking intimidatingly like his eponym, the guy that almost conquered Rome, until you need tape and then presto: as you fold his trunk out, he induces a mid .
- Despite its eponym's legal troubles, marthastewart.
- Over the past century, the Nobel committees have, by and large, done right by their eponym.