An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic .
8-527: Samantha Spinner and the Super-Secret Plans is a children's mystery novel centered on an eponymous character, Samantha, an 11-year-old from Seattle . Her uncle Paul disappeared mysteriously and left her siblings expensive gifts. Her brother, Nipper, received the New York Yankees . Her sister, Buffy, received $ 2,400,000,000. Samantha received only a rusty red umbrella. Eventually, she discovered that
16-652: A device to add educational content to the story. The book was written by Russell Ginns , who has written over 100 books and also designed video game software . Throughout the series, the characters explore locations, famous and obscure, around the globe. In the first two published books, they visit: The Louvre - France; The Eiffel Tower - France; The Florence Duomo - Italy; The Fountain of Neptune - Italy; The Temple of Horus - Egypt; Times Square - USA; The Space Needle - USA; The Great Mosque - Mali; Borobudur Temple - Indonesia; Machu Picchu - Peru The 2018 audiobook edition, narrated by Kathleen McInerney and Grover Gardner ,
24-399: A person – or, less commonly, a place or thing – for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Eponym may also refer to someone or something named after, or believed to be named after, a person – or, less commonly, a place or thing. A person, place, or thing named after a particular person share an eponymous relationship. In this way, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of
32-470: Is deprecable . Periods have often been named after a ruler or other influential figure: Trends For examples, see the comparison table below. By person's name By category Lists of medical eponyms Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held
40-494: The Elizabethan era , but the Elizabethan era can also be referred to as the eponym of Elizabeth I of England . Eponyms may be named for things or places, for example 10 Downing Street , a building named after its street address. Adjectives and verbs may be eponyms, for example bowdlerize . Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic . When Henry Ford is referred to as "the eponymous founder of
48-743: The Ford Motor Company ", his surname "Ford" and the name of the motor company have an eponymous relationship. The word "eponym" can also refer to the title character of a fictional work (such as Rocky Balboa of the Rocky film series ), as well as to self-titled works named after their creators (such as the album The Doors by the band the Doors ). Walt Disney created the eponymous Walt Disney Company , with his name similarly extended to theme parks such as Walt Disney World . Medical eponymous terms are often called medical eponyms , although that usage
56-433: The umbrella lining contains maps and diagrams to secret means of traveling around the globe. It is the first title in the four-part Samantha Spinner book series, to be released by Random House 2018–2021. The underside of the umbrella contains a map of secret passages which they expect will help find Samantha's uncle, but outlaw ninjas from the sewers are in pursuit of them. The story uses Samantha's brother Nipper as
64-663: Was listed an Earphones award winner by AudioFile Magazine . This article about a children's novel of the 2010s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . eponymous Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovations, biological nomenclature, astronomical objects, works of art and media, and tribal names. Various orthographic conventions are used for eponyms. The term eponym functions in multiple related ways, all based on an explicit relationship between two named things. Eponym may refer to
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