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:
But he could have mentioned a most important function that the book fulfills: that of setting straight the many misapprehensions regarding the origins of English place-names.
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?
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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