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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ep·onym /ˈɛpəˌnɪm/
 齊名的人,名字被用于命名地方的人

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 ep·onym /ˈɛpəˌnɪm/ 名詞
 人名名詞,採用人名定名的詞或術語,其名字被用于命名地方或部落的人,與一個地方或部落齊名的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ep·o·nym, Ep·o·nyme  n.
 1. The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
 2. A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 eponym
      n 1: the name of a person for whom something is supposedly named;
           "Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople"
      2: a name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary)
         as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its
         founder: Alexander the Great