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Definition: Toponym |
ToponymNoun1. The name by which a geographical place is known. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toponym" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: ToponymSynonym: place name (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In anatomy, toponym is a name of a region of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ.
In biology, a toponym is a binomial name of a plant.
(Greek: τοπωνυμιος, toponymios| τοπος, topos, a place, locality + ονυμα, onyma, name, title).
See also -onym
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toponym."
| Language | Translations for "toponym"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | toponimo (place name). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | boayl-ennym. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oponymtay toponim. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toponym": toponymic, toponymical, toponymies, toponymist, toponymists, toponyms, toponymy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "toponym" (pronounced 'Top"o*nym'): Allonym, Anonym, Antonym, Cryptonym, heteronym, homonym, Panym, Paronym, Polyonym, Pseudonym. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-n-o-o-p-t-y" | |
-2 letters: moony, toyon. | |
-3 letters: mono, mony, moon, moot, mopy, onto, pony, poon, tony, toom, toon, toyo, typo. | |
-4 letters: mon, moo, mop, mot, nom, noo, not, oot, opt, pom, pot, tom, ton, too, top, toy, yom, yon. | |
-5 letters: mo, my, no, om, on, op, oy, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-n-o-o-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: monotype, toponyms, toponymy. | |
+2 letters: monotypes, monotypic, taphonomy, toponymic. | |
+3 letters: promontory, toponymies, toponymist. | |
+4 letters: entomophily, premonitory, synaptosome, toponymical, toponymists, tropomyosin, trypanosome. | |
+5 letters: actinomorphy, antimonopoly, compensatory, contemporary, gymnosophist, hymenopteron, monophyletic, monosynaptic, omnipotently, photodynamic, phytohormone, pneumatology, synaptosomal, synaptosomes, tropomyosins, trypanosomes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 70 6F 6E 79 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110000 01101111 01101110 01111001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o p o n y m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0070 006F 006E 0079 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54818281809179 |
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