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namesake
Part of speech: NounOne having the same name as another; one called after another.
Usage examples "namesake":- Beyond her lay Peggy Owen Carter, also asleep; and next to Alice's namesake, and on the inner side of the bed and beyond her, lay Diana herself, fast asleep, with slightly parted lips. - "Peggy in Her Blue Frock", Eliza Orne White.
- I'll wager your friend is interesting, even if he does spell himself with an 'H', and weighs two stone less than his namesake from Rome. - "It Happened in Egypt", C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson.
- He was- extremely great, in fact; he lighted the torch that his namesake Francis Bacon took up four centuries later, and that now van Manderpootz rekindles. - "The Ideal", Stanley Grauman Weinbaum.