Words similar to eponyms

Example sentences for: eponyms

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But rather than pursue that obscure tack any further (place names such as Washington are surely both proper nouns and eponyms), let us see if the proper categories of words really end there as grammar books tend to suggest.
For these reasons, most grammarians would simply classify these verbs as eponyms.
But what are we to do about eponyms?
His compulsion emerged when both President and Mrs. Bush were diagnosed as having Graves's disease, one of several eponyms for hyperthyroidism, a common condition caused by excessive secretion of thyroid hormone.
Many experts, however, prefer to categorize these as common nouns or adjectives, labelling them eponyms --words derived from names.