nesonym

N1E1S1O1N1Y4M3

noun

A toponym of an island.

Scrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounnesonym (plural nesonyms)

plural nesonyms

  1. A toponym of an island.
    1 more example

    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 remove the 'demon' connotation that hung over this former penal colony.

    2013, Steven Roger Fischer, Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar, page 284

Origin

From neso- + -onym.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Catalan nesònim
  • nesònimtoponym of an island
Czech nesonymum
  • nesonymumtoponym of an island
Finnish saarennimi
  • saarennimitoponym of an island
French nésonyme
  • nésonymetoponym of an island
German Nesonym
  • Nesonymtoponym of an island
Italian nesonimo
  • nesonimotoponym of an island
Cite this entry
APA

nesonym. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nesonym

MLA

“nesonym.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nesonym. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nesonym,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nesonym.

Source: nesonym on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.