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.”

  • Besides these persons-words, commonly known as eponymous words, there are also place-words, commonly known as toponymic words, which derive from place-names.

  • Gregory uses stream in the way normal in England; Giles consistently refers to gens in the hills of central Australia, though glen is not current (outside place-names) in contemporary Australian English.

  • For poets, humorists, and those blessed with fertile imagination, place-names can have other meanings:

  • 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?


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