Words similar to place-names
Example sentences for: place-names
How can you use “place-names” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The authors decided that place-names spent too much time “loafing about on signposts.”
Surely the reference libraries to which people turn for such specialized information as the origin of place-names, as well as the individuals who are interested enough in such subjects to buy dictionaries, have access by now to personal computers?
For poets, humorists, and those blessed with fertile imagination, place-names can have other meanings:
The author is a highly reputable academic toponymist, and he is dealing with English, not American, place-names.
Besides these persons-words, commonly known as eponymous words, there are also place-words, commonly known as toponymic words, which derive from place-names.
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