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eponymous
adjective
Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which something or someone is named.
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Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, plays PK's eponymous lead, an alien who gets left behind by his spaceship in the Rajasthan desert and stumbles on to the hypocrisy and deceit in organised religion.
Lady Grinning Soul, All the Madmen, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Station to Station, Sweet Thing/Candidate, Quicksand … And, on the eponymous David Bowie album, rereleased as Space Oddity, there was this track, Cygnet Committee.
Any action could affect a number of social media sites: besides its eponymous social network, Facebook also owns the photo-sharing service Instagram, while Google owns YouTube, BlogSpot and Google+.
Such projects include the eponymous film that has branded them collectively the "class of 92".
It is Barry Cryer, who has been at the Oldie lunch, where speakers included Roy Hattersley and John Lloyd, who called Hatters "the eponymous hero of Spitting Image".
Remember too, this is the same Climate Change Authority (CCA) now apparently supported by billionaire Clive Palmer – the man who emerged as a policy powerbroker thanks to the eponymous political party he created out of thin air and his personal mining fortune.
Simon Mayo informs us Itch "had caused explosions before", as our eponymous hero knocks himself out in a phosphorous-related bedroom blast.
Isn't the eponymous physician a pill-popping, misanthropic jerk with off-putting googly eyes and bedside manner as soothing as a 3am phone call from Stalin?
Du Maurier steps outside this by setting her classic in Cornwall, always a land apart, and making the eponymous object of her crippled heroine's obsession the ambiguous and cynical Richard Grenville.
He also organises the annual clown memorial service for the original Joey, Joseph Grimaldi, the legendary British Victorian entertainer, on the first Sunday in February, and he tends Grimaldi's grave in the eponymous park off Pentonville Road in Islington, all year round.
Selling Shine put Murdoch and her husband Matthew Freud, founder of the eponymous PR agency, into the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time last year with a combined wealth reported to be £255m, making the couple 12th among media types and 315th overall.
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