Namesake

Definition of namesake:

part of speech: noun

One having the same name as another.

part of speech: noun

One bearing the same name as another for his sake.

Usage examples for namesake:

• She was shaped exactly like her namesake of the deep, upon which, indeed, her inventor had modelled her. "The World Peril of 1910", George Griffith.

• I placed a chair for Solon and was confronted by my namesake "The Boss of Little Arcady", Harry Leon Wilson.

• The hedge- sparrow, unlike his noisy namesake is one of the quietest of birds: he slips about in the hedges and bushes all round the garden so quietly and unobtrusively that unless you watch carefully you will not see him. "Wild Life in a Southern County", Richard Jefferies.