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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。Examples from the Corpusnamesake• 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 sakename·sake nounChineseSyllable person, famous Corpus another has more who a person, especially |