1. a person or thing having the same name as another

Examples

• Martin Luther King Jr. was the namesake of his father.
• The city of Washington is the namesake of George Washington.
• She named her daughter after her grandmother, making the child her namesake.
• The restaurant’s namesake was a famous chef from the 1920s.
• Princeton University’s namesake was William III of Orange, also known as Prince of Orange.
• The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial honors its namesake’s legacy of civil rights activism.