| definition | A word or name formed by combining the first letters or groups of letters from a phrase. | A name that's especially suited to the profession of its owner. | A word that takes on a new meaning when capitalized. | The name of a literary character that especially suits his or her personality. | A real or mythical person from whose name a place, a thing, or an event is taken. | Two or more words with identical spelling but different meaning and pronunciation. | Words that sound alike (and are sometimes spelled alike) but name different things. | From the Greek pseud (false) and onym (name), a false name or pen name, used by an author. | A place name or word that began as the name of a place. |
| example | SCUBA comes from self-contained underwaterbreathing apparatus. | Sally Ride, the astronaut. | polish (pol-ish), Polish (Polish). | Charles Dickens's Scrooge is a miser. | The earl of Sandwich, for example, the first person to ask for meat between two slices of bread, is the eponym of the modern sandwich. | There are so many bows. How about bow and arrow? Bow of a boat? | die (to stop living) and dye (color). | Mark Twain is a pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens. | hamburger (from Hamburg, Germany) and afghan (a soft blanket from Afghanistan). |
:D you guys are better at grammar than i am lol......
what about Aptronym - Mark Stuff a taxidermist *dies*
homonym = mine / mind :p
Heteronym: second thing, an hour and a second!
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