namesake

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Editorial note

Just consider the jockeying between Dell and Icahn when Dell announced plans to take the namesake company private.

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Quick take

A person with the same name as another.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of namesake gathered in one view.

noun

A person with the same name as another.

noun

One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.

noun

One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for namesake.

noun

A person with the same name as another.

noun

One who is named after another, often a child named after the parent or an ancestor.

noun

One for whom another is named, often the parent or ancestor who gave the name to a child.

noun

An entity that lends its name to another entity.

Example sentences

Just consider the jockeying between Dell and Icahn when Dell announced plans to take the namesake company private.

Also, completely unrelated, but they are the namesake of the CenturyLink football stadium, home of the Seattle Seahawks.

Also the namesake of an amazing brand of sourdough chips that got discontinued well before their time.

Seriously, it actually has an interesting history with regard to religion and its namesake, who was actually a Christian.

A full namesake had died and the paperwork for terminating the accounts had gone through.

Photoshop referring to Photoshop.com, their photo editing web app, not its more impressive namesake.

Hopefully this prize won't, like its namesake, require a lifetime of argument to claim.

I'm disappointed if like it's namesake it doesn't give vague, disturbing, portent information to the console.

I would definitely read those and would be equally disappointed if the author turned out to be an unrelated namesake.

But honestly, if I got my namesake on some kind of fundamental theory, I'd be pretty ok with everything else being forgotten.

Mark's dog, Zynga's namesake, also passed away in this time.

I thought a historic namesake like Apple Records would hold onto its name dearly.

Quote examples

Typically, functional languages operate by giving "first class" domain to functions (thus their namesake).

While it might be bad for karma to point out, intro to C certainly isn't what I expect to be news to "hackers", as per the site's namesake.

Haskell borrows concepts from category theory (a "field" so abstract from most math that most mathematicians don't need but a handful of its concepts) to label typeclasses, and those typeclasses don't always follow from their namesake.

Here's a excerpt from Jumpa Lahiri's book The Namesake about similar sentiments for a second generation Indian-American man talking to friends of his white girlfriend about getting sick while visiting India: "But you must be lucky that way" "What do you mean?" "I mean, you must never get sick." "Actually that's not true," he says, slightly annoyed...