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# namesake

noun (a namesake, namesakes)

«namesake» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person or thing that has the same name as another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#m1)
2. A person or thing named after someone: «The ship was named after the queen, its namesake.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories and history, a namesake shares a name with a famous person or place; things are often named after people. Phrases: «his namesake», «a famous namesake».

### Examples

- I met my namesake — another girl called Ruby Brown! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x1)
- The town of Washington is named after George Washington, its namesake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x2)
- My grandad is my namesake; we are both called Thomas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x3)
- The new ship is a namesake of an old one sunk in the war. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x4)
- Prince Charles's namesake, King Charles I, lived in the 1600s. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x5)
- The bakery's namesake was the founder's grandmother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x6)
- After the feasting was over the two namesakes, along with other men, went to the cliff and brought all the treasure home to the Palace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/#x7)

### Note

Countable; plural «namesakes». It can mean either the person who has the same name or the one the thing was named after — read carefully which. One word, not «name sake».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «namesake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/namesake/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«namesake» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/namesake.html) on Mova free.