Namesake

/ˈneɪmseɪk/

Synonyms for "namesake" (48 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

Strong matches (14)

Related words (24)

hyponymlabelmonikernamenomennomen nudumproper nameproper nounscientific namesecret namestyletagtautonymtitletrinomentrinomial name

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

8 entries

More specific

4 entries
institution namesakeperson namesakeplace namesakeproduct namesake

Collocations

5 entries
namesake brandnamesake citynamesake institutionnamesake personnamesake relationship

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Translations

97 translations across 55 languages.

Powered by Wiktionary

Albanian

1 entries
  • adash noun (person with the same name as another)

Arabic

2 entries
  • سَمِيَّة noun (person with the same name as another)
  • سَمِيّ noun (person with the same name as another)

Aramaic

3 entries
  • ܒܥܠ ܫܡܐ noun (person with the same name as another)
  • ܒܥܠܬ ܫܡܐ noun (person with the same name as another)
  • ܒܪ ܫܡܐ noun (person with the same name as another)

Armenian

1 entries
  • անվանակից noun (person with the same name as another)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • adaş noun (person with the same name as another)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • аҙаш noun (person with the same name as another)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • аднафамі́лец noun (person with the same name as another)
  • аднафамі́ліца noun (person with the same name as another)
  • цёзка noun (person with the same name as another)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • tokayo noun (person with the same name as another)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • ада́ш noun (person with the same name as another)
  • съи́менник noun (person with the same name as another)
  • съи́менничка noun (person with the same name as another)

Catalan

1 entries
  • homònim noun (person with the same name as another)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 同名的人 noun (person with the same name as another)
  • 同名者 noun (person with the same name as another)

Czech

2 entries
  • jmenovec noun (person with the same name as another)
  • jmenovkyně noun (person with the same name as another)

Danish

4 entries
  • navne noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navnebroder c/navnebror noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navnefælle noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navnesøster noun (person with the same name as another)

Dutch

1 entries
  • naamgenoot noun (person with the same name as another)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • samnomulo noun (person with the same name as another)

Estonian

1 entries
  • nimekaim noun (person with the same name as another)

Faroese

2 entries
  • navna noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navni noun (person with the same name as another)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kaima noun (person with the same name as another)

French

1 entries
  • homonyme noun (person with the same name as another)

German

1 entries
  • Namensvetter noun (person with the same name as another)

Hindi

1 entries
  • हमनाम noun (person with the same name as another)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • drusza noun (person with the same name as another)
  • névrokon noun (person with the same name as another)

Italian

1 entries
  • omonimo noun (person with the same name as another)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 同名異人 noun (person with the same name as another)
  • 同姓同名 noun (person with the same name as another)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • адас noun (person with the same name as another)
  • аттас noun (person with the same name as another)

Khalaj

1 entries
  • adaş noun (person with the same name as another)

Korean

1 entries
  • 동명인 noun (person with the same name as another)

Kyrgyz

1 entries
  • атташ noun (person with the same name as another)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • имењак noun (person with the same name as another)
  • имењачка noun (person with the same name as another)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • амьдай noun (person with the same name as another)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries
  • navne noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navnebror noun (person with the same name as another)
  • navnesøster noun (person with the same name as another)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries
  • namne noun (person with the same name as another)
  • namnebror noun (person with the same name as another)
  • namnesyster noun (person with the same name as another)
  • namnesøster noun (person with the same name as another)

Old Norse

2 entries
  • nafna noun (person with the same name as another)
  • nafni noun (person with the same name as another)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • آداش noun (person with the same name as another)

Persian

1 entries
  • همنام noun (person with the same name as another)

Polish

2 entries
  • imienniczka noun (person with the same name as another)
  • imiennik noun (person with the same name as another)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • homónimo noun (person with the same name as another)
  • homônimo noun (person with the same name as another)
  • tocaio noun (person with the same name as another)
  • xará noun (person with the same name as another)

Romanian

1 entries
  • tiz noun (person with the same name as another)

Russian

3 entries
  • однофами́лец noun (person with the same name as another)
  • однофами́лица noun (person with the same name as another)
  • тёзка noun (person with the same name as another)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • prezimènjāk noun (person with the same name as another)
  • ȉmenjāk noun (person with the same name as another)
  • и̏мења̄к noun (person with the same name as another)
  • презимѐња̄к noun (person with the same name as another)

Slovak

2 entries
  • menovec noun (person with the same name as another)
  • menovkyňa noun (person with the same name as another)

Slovene

2 entries
  • soimenjak noun (person with the same name as another)
  • soimenjakinja noun (person with the same name as another)

Southern Altai

1 entries
  • адаш noun (person with the same name as another)

Spanish

4 entries
  • colombroño noun (person with the same name as another)
  • homónima noun (person with the same name as another)
  • homónimo noun (person with the same name as another)
  • tocaya noun (person with the same name as another)

Swedish

1 entries
  • namne noun (person with the same name as another)

Tajik

2 entries
  • ҳамном noun (person with the same name as another)
  • ҳамфамилия noun (person with the same name as another)

Tatar

1 entries
  • адаш noun (person with the same name as another)

Tofa

1 entries
  • шооза noun (person with the same name as another)

Turkish

1 entries
  • adaş noun (person with the same name as another)

Turkmen

1 entries
  • adaş noun (person with the same name as another)

Tuvan

1 entries
  • атташ noun (person with the same name as another)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • однофамі́льник noun (person with the same name as another)
  • однофамі́льниця noun (person with the same name as another)
  • те́зка noun (person with the same name as another)
  • тезко́ noun (person with the same name as another)

Urdu

1 entries
  • ہمنام noun (person with the same name as another)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • adash noun (person with the same name as another)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • người trùng tên noun (person with the same name as another)

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He is my namesake, but no relation.

Source: tatoeba (284478)

The English town of York is the namesake of the largest city in the United States.

Source: tatoeba (8110014)

Wonder why he was struck off the rolls. Had his office in Hume street. Same house as Molly’s namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.

Source: tatoeba (10485972)

I casually learned that my namesake was born on the nineteenth of January, 1813.

Source: tatoeba (10485983)

Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.

More for "namesake"

Meaning

Keep exploring

Read the definitionBrowse writing guidesRead the blog