namesake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 nāmʹsāk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An entity that lends its name to another entity.
  2. An entity that lends its name to another entity.; A person with the same name as another.
    — The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
  3. An entity that lends its name to another entity.; A person with the same name as another.; One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.
    — Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
  4. An entity that lends its name to another entity.; A person with the same name as another.; One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.
    — Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
  5. Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something. broadly
动词 v.
  1. To name (somebody) after somebody else. transitive

词形变化

namesakes plural namesakes present,singular,third-person namesaking participle,present namesaked participle,past namesaked past

词源

词源 1
Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
词源 2
Mid-17th century. Equivalent to name + sake. From the phrase “for (one's) name's sake”, first found in Bible translations as a rendering of a Calque of Hebrew לְמַעַן שְׁמוֹ (l'má'an sh'mó) idiom meaning “to protect one's reputation” or possibly “vouched for by one's reputation”. A familiar example is in Psalm 23:3.
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