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NAMESAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does namesake mean?
• NAMESAKE (noun)
The noun NAMESAKE has 1 sense:
1. a person with the same name as another
Familiarity information: NAMESAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with the same name as another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("namesake" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Context examples
You are not, perhaps, aware that I am your namesake? —that I was christened St. John Eyre Rivers?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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