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nesonym

nesonym noun: a toponym of an island.

Noun

nesonym (plural nesonyms)

  1. A toponym of an island.
    • The earliest known nesonym south of Australia is Van Diemen's Land, which Abel Tasman (1603—1659) immortalized on discovery in 1642 to honour the then Governor General of the Dutch East Indies; in 1856, however, the island was renamed Tasmania ostensibly to honour Tasman himself but actually to...2013, Steven Roger Fischer, Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar, page 284

Forms of nesonym

pluralnesonyms

Questions about nesonym

What does nesonym mean?
Nesonym means a toponym of an island.
What part of speech is nesonym?
Nesonym is a noun.
What is the plural of nesonym?
The plural of nesonym is nesonyms.

Words near nesonym in the dictionary

  1. Nesoian
  2. nesomyid
  3. nesomyids
  4. nesomyine
  5. nesomyines
  6. nesonym
  7. nesonyms
  8. nesophontid
  9. nesophontids
  10. nesosilicate
  11. nesosilicates

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