Words similar to eponymous

Example sentences for: eponymous

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

"I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary," the eponymous Mr. Peterman avers on his catalog's first page, under the heading "Philosophy."
Besides these persons-words, commonly known as eponymous words, there are also place-words, commonly known as toponymic words, which derive from place-names.
For some eponymous terms, the eponymy is obvious, or famous: Caesarean section ; graham cracker ; Molotov cocktail ; boycott ; leotard ; Luddite ; silhouette ; volt . Many more eponyms, though familiar, are not so obviously eponymous.
In a brilliant novel published last year, The Puttermesser Papers , her eponymous heroine, Ruth Puttermesser, becomes mayor of New York City and embraces a Whitmanesque vision of urban harmony--Jews and Christians and everyone together--before being undone by a rapacious golem.
The modestly ordinary fellow, meanwhile--the owner of a struggling travel-book shop in the eponymous London neighborhood--is impersonated by Hugh Grant, who has made a specialty of teasing ordinary modesty into extraordinary adorableness.