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How to use toponym in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Toponym means a placename. Example: “As we celebrate one hundred years of official 'standardization' of Canadian toponyms, this would be an appropriate time to reflect upon the state of toponyms used by the Aboriginal people of Canada.”

Examples of toponym by meaning

nounA placename.

  • As we celebrate one hundred years of official 'standardization' of Canadian toponyms, this would be an appropriate time to reflect upon the state of toponyms used by the Aboriginal people of Canada.2003, William C. Wonders, Canada's Changing North, →ISBN, page 207
  • Conquests were recorded using toponyms that refer to specific cities or locations, and war captives were identified by their place of origin.2006, Robert J. Sharer, Loa P. Traxler, The Ancient Maya, →ISBN, page 714
  • If ביתדוד of the Tel Dan Inscription did originate with a temple of some kind, then we must interpret the ‘’’toponym’’’ as meaning 'House of (the) Patron'.2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, →ISBN

nounA word derived from the name of a place.

  • ‘Tangerine’ is a toponym of Tangier.
  • The name Rūmī, by which he is widely known in the West, is a toponym referring to the fact that he lived in the province of Rūm (Anatolia), the country now known as Turkey.2010, Seyed Ghahreman Safavi, Simon Weightman, Rumi's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawi, Book One, →ISBN, page 1
  • Next time you go out for a hamburger, ask your sixth grader to find the toponyms.2012, Suzanne Barchers, Sixth Grade Parent Guide for Your Child's Success, →ISBN

More sentences with toponym

  • He divides synchronically opaque Sardinian toponyms into segments supposedly related to Basque lexical roots.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 19. From the entry synchronically
  • The sole evidence of a language spoken by the Liguri is limited to personal names and toponyms.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 14. From the entry Liguri
  • First and foremost, it is impossible to establish the Benennungsmotive of the hundreds of pre-Roman Sardinian toponyms.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 19. From the entry Benennungsmotiv
  • A type of toponym, as the name of any country, territory, region, district or the like.1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies. From the entry choronym
  • For this chapter, eponym shall be defined as 'word going back to a proper noun (e.g. anthroponym, toponym, ethnonym)'.2025, Joachim Grzega, The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN. From the entry deonym
  • Wolf records several Barbaricine toponyms ending in unaccented -́al-.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 437. From the entry l pinguis
  • Therefore the ethnonym 'Sinto' is also a toponym.2024, USC Shoah Foundation, Roma and Sinti. From the entry Sinti
  • One of the subcategories of the traditional toponyms (and, at the same time, of the traditional urbanonyms) are the horonyms.2018, Maryana Dolynska, “Some Principles of Interdisciplinary Investigation for Recreating the Historical Topography of Urban Spaces”, in…. From the entry horonym
  • Abionyms include astronyms, astrotoponyms, cosmonyms, and toponyms.1996, Adrian Room, “abionym”, in An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies, Lanham, MD; London: The Scarecrow Press, →ISBN…. From the entry abionym
  • These toponyms cannot be Türkic by origin, for they are encountered in places where Türks have never lived.1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk: […], page 730. From the entry Türkic
  • It can be determined that there are different nomenclatures containing the related word in the microtoponyms (hydronym, dromonym etc.) belonging to the regions where the "Çakraz" toponym is used.2023, Anıl ÇELİK, “Çakraz Yer Adının Etimolojisi Hakkında Düşünceler [Thoughts on the Etymology of Çakraz Toponym]”, in Iğdır Üniversitesi…. From the entry dromonym
  • This study investigates whether eponyms and toponyms are being discarded for medically-descriptive terms and if this rate of change is influenced by the offensive nature of the disease name.2018, Christina Kazzi, Sarah White, Mark Butlin, “Changes in the use of eponyms and toponyms to name diseases. Abstract presented at…. From the entry toponymous
  • The field of microtoponymy is concerned with individual or local use of toponyms in a small village or urban quarter, which may also reflect the social relations of their inhabitants.2015, Jonas Schnabel-Le Corre, Betina Löfström, Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy, →ISBN. From the entry microtoponymy

Meaning of toponym

  1. noun A placename.
  2. noun A word derived from the name of a place.
  3. noun The technical designation of any region of an animal.

Full definition of toponym

Questions about toponym in a sentence

How do you use toponym in a sentence?
Toponym is used as a noun. For example: “As we celebrate one hundred years of official 'standardization' of Canadian toponyms, this would be an appropriate time to reflect upon the state of toponyms used by the Aboriginal people of Canada.”
What is a short sentence with toponym?
“‘Tangerine’ is a toponym of Tangier.”
What does toponym mean?
Toponym means a placename.

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