That after which something is named. Eg: "In The Maltese Falcon, the eponymous statue is sought by all the players"
E*pon"y*mous (?), a. [Gr. ; upon, to + for name.]
Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote.
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