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Namesake
Someone or something named after a person / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Namesake (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Eponym, the original entity bearing a name.
A namesake is a person, geographic location, or other entity bearing the name of another.[1][2][3][4]
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