Meanings
- uncountableThe naming of streets and roads.
The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).
1976, Raymond Chevallier, Roman roads, page 2393 more examples
Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.
1995, Onoma - Volume 32, page 9The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.
1996, Ernst Eichler, Name Studies, →ISBN, page 1482The second period of street-naming in the history of Moldova is connected with the Soviet period. In 1940, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Bessarabia became part of the Soviet Union. Sovietization also affects hodonymy.
2021 November 30, Anastasia Romanova, “Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova”, in Urbana, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2025, page 134
Origin
From hod- + -onymy or hodonym + -y.
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Rhymes with hodonymy
Cite this entry
hodonymy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodonymy
“hodonymy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodonymy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hodonymy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hodonymy.
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