English
Etymology
name + sake. From the phrase "(one's) name's sake"; first recorded in the mid-seventeenth century.
Pronunciation
Noun
namesake (plural namesakes)
- (originally) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.
- Synonym: eponym
- (by extension) A ship or a building that is named after someone or something.
- A person with the same name as another.
Translations
person, place or thing named after another person, place or thing
person with the same name as another
- Bashkir: аҙаш (aźaş)
- Catalan: homònim (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 同名者 (tóngmíngzhě)
- Czech: jmenovec (cs) m
- Danish: navnefælle c, navne c (archaic), navnebroder c/navnebror c (male), navnesøster c (female)
- Esperanto: samnomulo
- Faroese: navni m, navna f
- Finnish: kaima (fi)
- French: homonyme (fr) m
- German: Namensvetter (de) m, Namensvetterin f, Namenscousin m, Namenscousine f, Namenskusine f
- Hungarian: névrokon (hu), drusza (hu)
- Italian: omonimo (it) m
- Japanese: 同名異人 (ja) (どうめいいじん, dōmei ijin), 同姓同名 (dōseidōmei)
- Kazakh: адас (adas), аттас (attas)
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- Korean: 동명인 (ko) (dongmyeong'in)
- Mongolian: амьдай (mn) (amʹdaj)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: navnebror (no) m (male); navnesøster (no) m or f, (female); navne m
- Nynorsk: namne m; namnebror m (male); namnesyster f, namnesøster f (female)
- Old Norse: nafni m, nafna f
- Polish: imiennik (pl) m
- Portuguese: tocaio (pt) m, homónimo (pt) m (Portugal), homônimo (pt) m (Brazil), xará (pt) m or f (Brazil)
- Romanian: tiz (ro) m
- Russian: тёзка (ru) m or f (tjózka), однофами́лец (ru) m (odnofamílec) (the same surname), однофами́лица (ru) f (odnofamílica)
- Spanish: tocayo (es) m, tocaya f, homónimo (es) m, homónima (es) f, colombroño (es) m
- Swedish: namne (sv)
- Tofa: шооза (şooza)
- Turkish: adaş (tr)
- Tuvan: атташ (attaş)
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Verb
namesake (third-person singular simple present namesak, present participle ed, simple past and past participle namesaked)
- (transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.
