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:
A WP "Metro" section story reports that residents of Burkittsville, Md.--home of the Blair Witch in the eponymous film--are thoroughly spooked by the onset of Halloween.
Naysayers: "[S]trictly Batman revisited" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News ). Advocates: "[P]ure visceral imagery" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The eponymous hero is a tortured half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) on a classic comic book mission to rid the world of his more murderous brethren.
Also, eponymous terms allow almost anyone to display competence, even brilliance, at coining useful and appropriate-sounding new words--thereby encouraging further attempts to do so.
"The eponymous protagonist says this of his Weltschmerz in the revised-for-the-'90s edition of The Little Engine That Could ."-- David Finkle
Legend attributes it to a more or less imaginary eponymous founder Romulus , or, in a less familiar version, to a Trojan woman, Rhome (whose name is a Greek word for `strength').