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?
Foster might have attended to the poems and shown how willfully they use place-names (and in the later verse, Yeats' famous friends' names) to erect the mansion of Irish literature.
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.
Besides these persons-words, commonly known as eponymous words, there are also place-words, commonly known as toponymic words, which derive from place-names.