Linguistics students examined eponyms that connect everyday words to notable historical figures.

The museum's eponymic wing displays artifacts donated by the family whose name it bears.

The observatory was eponymically christened after its founder, and astronomers still celebrate his methods there.

By eponymizing the island after a colonizer, the cartographers erased the memory of its indigenous inhabitants.

The university often eponymizes buildings after distinguished alumni.

The new mineral was eponymized after the geologist who discovered it.

The founder decided to eponymize the scholarship after his mentor, hoping the name would inspire future recipients.

In his glossary he listed eponyme as an archaic noun meaning the person after whom something is named.

The professor explained several eponymes in medical terminology and why they persist.

Scholars debated whether eponymism enriches the language or obscures historical context.