Example sentences for: literatonym

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  • A well known literatonym is serendipity, often used imprecisely to mean anything found by good luck, but precisely meaning something good that is unexpectedly found while looking for something else.

  • The category of eponyms might be subdivided to add literatonym (pronounced lit-er-AH-to-nym), meaning a word derived from the name of a person or place in literature and mythonym , meaning a literatonym derived from mythology ( Herculean from Hercules, and, less obviously, martial from Mars).


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