English Explanatory Dictionary

namesake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An entity that lends its name to another entity.
  2. A person with the same name as another.
  3. One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.
  4. One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.
  5. Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
verb
  1. To name (somebody) after somebody else.

Pronunciation

nāmʹsāk /ˈneɪmseɪk/ en-us-namesake.ogg en-au-namesake.ogg

Word forms

namesake namesakes namesaking namesaked

Etymology

Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.

Synonyms

eponym

Translations

Albanian: adash Southern Altai: адаш Arabic: سَمِيّ Arabic: سَمِيَّة Aramaic: ܒܪ ܫܡܐ Aramaic: ܒܥܠ ܫܡܐ Aramaic: ܒܥܠܬ ܫܡܐ Armenian: անվանակից Azerbaijani: adaş Bashkir: аҙаш Belarusian: цёзка Belarusian: аднафамі́лец Belarusian: аднафамі́ліца Central Bikol: tukayo Bulgarian: съи́менник Bulgarian: съи́менничка Bulgarian: ада́ш Catalan: homònim Chinese Mandarin: 同名者 Chinese Mandarin: 同名的人 Czech: jmenovec Czech: jmenovkyně Danish: navnefælle Danish: navne Danish: navnebroder c/navnebror Danish: navnesøster Dutch: naamgenoot Esperanto: samnomulo Estonian: nimekaim Faroese: navni Faroese: navna Finnish: kaima French: homonyme German: Namensvetter Hindi: हमनाम Hungarian: névrokon Hungarian: drusza Italian: omonimo Japanese: 同名異人 Japanese: 同姓同名 Kazakh: адас Kazakh: аттас Khalaj: adaş Korean: 동명인 Kyrgyz: атташ Macedonian: имењак Macedonian: имењачка Mongolian: амьдай Norwegian Bokmål: navnebror Norwegian Bokmål: navnesøster Norwegian Bokmål: navne Norwegian Nynorsk: namne Norwegian Nynorsk: namnebror Norwegian Nynorsk: namnesyster Norwegian Nynorsk: namnesøster Old Norse: nafni Old Norse: nafna Persian: همنام Polish: imiennik Polish: imienniczka Portuguese: tocaio Portuguese: homónimo Portuguese: homônimo Portuguese: xará Romanian: tiz Russian: тёзка Russian: однофами́лец Russian: однофами́лица Serbo-Croatian: и̏мења̄к Serbo-Croatian: презимѐња̄к Serbo-Croatian: ȉmenjāk Serbo-Croatian: prezimènjāk
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