eponymous

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.

   Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.

2. adjective Of a thing: named after a person or entity.

   The American singer-songwriter Madonna released her eponymous album in 1983.

Similar words

eponymic archon exonymic etymonic anthroponymous toponymic typonymic etymic ethnonymous epithetic

Often followed by

hero ancestor heroine heroes founder protagonist character ancestors novel archon

Word family

eponymously