namesake

[ US /ˈneɪmˌseɪk/ ]
[ UK /nˈe‍ɪmse‍ɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person with the same name as another
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How To Use namesake In A Sentence

  • In October, the retailer said it would shut 21% of its namesake North American stores over the next two years, coming to terms with the overextension of its store network before the recession and predictions that U.S. growth will be slow. Gap's Profit Falls 36%
  • It's odd how there's no mention at all of how the terra cotta warriors, the namesakes of the show, came about.
  • Philosophy major Wylie Dufresne hopes to dine with founding fathers, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; compares line cooks to lab researchers; and rejects the term molecular gastronomy to define the cuisine at his Michelin-star namesake restaurant, wd~50. Louise McCready: Curious Wylie Dufresne Defends the Science of Cooking
  • So I knocked off an incredibly quick webpage launching the Campaign For Better Namesakes.
  • That being said, though, I think my bodiless namesake hits the nail on the head when he points out that the concept is already overfamiliar, even if this is the character's film debut.
  • Like his famous namesake he is proving to be big up front. The Sun
  • The word 'Taino' means noble and in a twist of history the passage of the no-abortion legislation is figuratively a return to the island nation's namesake in its very aspect. ProLifeBlogs
  • Indeed, a sonnet is addressed by this one to a cousin and namesake. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Notre-Dame Cathedral in Senlis is less famous than its namesake in Paris.
  • The show's central fixture and namesake is a 22-foot-wide cartographic wonder from 2004 that's divided into four nearly identical white-on-black canvases depicting Calgary, Charleston, Kansas City and Philadelphia as geographic neighbors. Getting Up Guide: New Yorker's Alex Ross; first ladies of dance
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