Example sentences for: onomastic

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

  • The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).

  • His book has not been written for people like me, and its real impact will have to be judged when it gets into the hands of those intended readers who are not already onomastic freaks.

  • According to Bowman, Musical Names: The Titles of Symphonies is a beginning on an abundant onomastic field.

  • Another group of names falls into the either-or category, in which a well-researched onomastic history could consign a family to either comforting averageness or ignominy.

  • Someone cutting up a farm into small lots will try to communicate a feeling of spaciousness with such words as Ranch, Estate, Manor , or Garden . Sometimes the onomastic irony merely resulted in two viable perceptions of the same place.


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