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Definition of "toponymic" []

  • Of, or relating to a toponym (adjective)
  • Named after a place (adjective)

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Use "toponymic" in a sentence
  • "This immediately smells like false parsing to me since one could equally come up with other ad hoc 'toponymic formants' like *-asia and find examples like Ocrasia and Planasia to serve as 'evidence' with far too much ease to suit my skeptical nature."
  • "An associate of the Poor Catholics, Ermengaud of Béziers, wrote the polemic Contra haereticos between 1200 and 1210; it focused on the Cathars but included some material on the Waldenses. 15 Ermengaud's toponymic indicates that he wrote in and/or came from the region closely associated with Catharism and from a city that was infamously sacked by the crusaders not long after the text's composition."
  • "Or, to be blunt, how to get something named after you.… From anecdotal evidence gathered in From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow and elsewhere, this reviewer suggests the surest route to toponymic immortality is becoming the President of the United States of America."