<P> A namesake is a person named after another, or more broadly, a thing (such as a company, place, ship, building, or concept) named after a person . According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a namesake is also defined as "a person or thing having the same name as another". </P> <P> The word is first recorded in the mid-17th century, and probably comes from the phrase "for (the, my, his, her) name's sake". </P>

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