- 1同名的（書名／片名裡的那個角色）
The eponymous person in a book, film, or play is the one whose name is in the title. Hamlet is the eponymous prince in Hamlet; Jane Eyre is the eponymous young woman in Jane Eyre. It does not just mean “the main character.” If a story is called The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is eponymous; Nick tells the story, but the title is not his name. You meet this word in reviews, essays, and quite literary talk — not in the playground. People stretch it in a very regular way: a band’s eponymous album is the album with the same name as the band; a café’s eponymous cake is the cake named after the café. The idea is always “named after that person or thing,” not “famous” and not “the star of the show.” If you only need a simple sentence, you can say “the character the book is named after.”
組成From Ancient Greek epṓnymos (“giving one’s name to something; named after”) + English -ous (turns a noun idea into an adjective: “having that quality”). The Greek word itself is epi- (“upon”) + ónoma (“name”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eponymousadj/ɪˈpɒnɪməs/
- 1
Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.
- Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.
- Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book.
- 2
Of a thing: named after a person or entity.
- The American singer-songwriter Madonna released her eponymous album in 1983.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。