namesake

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++name·sake /ˈneɪmseɪk/ noun  somebody’s namesake NAME OF A PERSONanother person, especially a more famous person, who has the same name as someone 〔尤指较著名的〕同(姓)名的人 Like his famous namesake, young Washington had a brave, adventurous spirit. 像和他同名的那位名人一样，小华盛顿也有勇敢的冒险精神。

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namesake• Peters, like his familial namesake, was a hoper.• But hardly for his present namesake.• Modelled on its Princeton namesake, it is funded mainly by the state of Berlin.• Mr Coleman is as diffident as his television namesake, at the microphone, is garrulous.• Indeed, in political terms Die-hard conservatism proved to be even less relevant than its pre-war namesake.Origin namesake (1600-1700) Probably from name's sake

name·sake nounChineseSyllable  

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namesake
name‧sake /ˈneɪmseɪk/ nounsb’s namesake another person, especially a more famous person, who has the same name as someone:
    Like his famous namesake, young Washington had a brave, adventurous spirit.

name·sakeBrE /ˈneɪmseɪk/ 🔊NAmE /ˈneɪmseɪk/ 🔊 nouna person or thing that has the same name as sb/sth else 同名的人（或物）◆Unlike his more famous namesake, this Gordon Brown has little interest in politics. 这位戈登 · 布朗与那位同名的著名人物不同，对政治没什么兴趣。🔊🔊