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(thing) by hoopy_frood (1.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:20:29

The name of the 1988 R.E.M. anthology which features the hits The One I Love and It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), among others.

See the clever bit is that eponymous means to give your name to something. It's like naming your album The Self-Titled Album.

(idea) by Capn (2.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Sep 25 2000 at 16:16:09

That after which something is named. Eg: "In The Maltese Falcon, the eponymous statue is sought by all the players"

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:27:17

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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The Big Lebowski Phenomenon	eponym	Eponymous syndromes	It's the End of the World as We Know It
Moxy Früvous	Eponymous words	Witnessing the birth of new noders	The Maltese Falcon
R.E.M.	Eponymous anatomical structures	Driver 8	Gardening at Night
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville	Radio Free Europe	The Pink Album	Talk About the Passion
Up Shit Creek without a paddle	VW Rabbit	Senorita with a Necklace of Tears	self-titled
s/t	Eponymous terms	Michurinism	Eponymous diseases

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