User:FlightTime/Eponymous
Eponymous
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Hello, I'm Jimbo This is a common mistake (saying that an album title is eponymous)...it's the artist that is eponymous, not the other way around:
- Eponym: "one for whom or which something is or is believed to be named"
- Eponymous: "of, relating to, or being the person or thing for whom or which something is named"
To be eponymous is to be the person or thing that some other thing is named after. For example, Richard and Maurice McDonald are the eponymous founders of McDonald's because they are the ones for which the business is named, they are not named after the business. Donald Trump is the eponymous owner of Trump Tower...the tower is named after him; he is not named after the tower. It's the same for so-called "self-titled" albums: The album is named after the artist; the artist is not named after the album. Therefore the artist is the eponymous creator of the album.
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- Adopted by User:FlightTime
Thank you.