Example sentences for: toponymy

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

  • , MAD-rid, New York, for Madrid , BER-lin, Connecticut, for Berlin , and PEER, South Dakota, for Pierre ). It is perhaps understandable that those who undertake the creation of a complete record of American toponymy have chosen to deal with the estimated 3,000,000 named streets and highways across the land as a separate project.

  • American toponymy is carried on by people of all academic disciplines, and from many walks of life.

  • There are no departments of toponymy, or even of onomastics that I know of, and no degrees are awarded in these fields.

  • The toponymy of Rome offers an entertaining supplement to the study of its twenty-seven hundred years of history.

  • On the other hand, it is largely because of this unusual intrusion of government that American toponymy has flourished as a field of study.


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