Words similar to eponym

Example sentences for: eponym

How can you use “eponym” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And Fallovian ? In this case, the contextual evidence suggested that Michael Lewis' coinage fell into the class of eponym known as a "derivative"--in this case, derived from a name, that of James Fallows, editor of U.S.
Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).
Anyway, I don't think "Lewinsky," as a verb or a noun, has the staying power of something like Heimlich, another eponym (word named after a person, for those who are reading over our shoulders) involving one person doing something physical to another.
Critics may sensibly ask, Who owns the eponym?
Stedman's Medical Dictionary , 26th edition (1995), argues that Graves ' is correct, while the Churchill lexicon (1989) omits both apostrophe and s with Graves but keeps both with Parry's disease , another eponym for hyperthyroidism.