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单词 toponym
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Definition of toponym in English:

toponym

nounˈtɒpənɪmˈtɑpəˌnɪm
  • A place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Without literary traditions, they relied on mental maps for describing places and fixed specific locations using toponyms and oral descriptions.
    • Without literary traditions, rural folk share elaborate cognitive maps with others through the use of toponyms that give geographic orientations.
    • From left to right, the painter sets out the toponyms of seven Tepanec or affiliated altepemeh - the Tepanec Confederacy ruled by Azcapotzalco - in an approximate geographic order, with southeast at left and northwest at right.
    • 4 The documentation includes maps with all known toponyms (historical cultural cartography), ethnohistory, census, socioeconomic study, and basic use zones.
    • Azoria is the local toponym for a distinctively rounded and double-peaked hill overlooking the Bay of Mirabello in northeastern Crete.
    • The principal legacy left behind in those territories from which the language of the Britons were displaced is that of toponyms.
    • Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa.
    • Toward the left of the upper horizontal band, just above the second and third from the left of the seven toponyms of the Tepanec Confederacy, traces remain of a calendrical date, either Four or Five Flint Knife.
    • To the right of Azcapotzalco's toponym and Maxtla's corpse bundle, the artist displays Nezahualcoyotl's two allies of the Triple Alliance, Itzcoatl and Totoquihuatzin, the tlahtoqueh of Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, respectively.
    • The chapter, which takes up fewer than 30 pages, contains (by my count) nearly 200 toponyms of nations, counties, towns, streets, rivers, buildings, and other geographical features.
    • The sources are complementary in identifying and locating toponyms, still a painstaking task, but immensely valuable for any study of settlement patterns.
    • The project relied on teamwork, the collection of toponyms, the drawing of sketch maps, and the interpretation of air photos.
    • A second workshop was held in Caloveborita in September 1999 to review the census results and community mapping work and to transfer toponyms from the sketch maps to the cartographic sheets.
    • The final two chapters expound on the controversial issue of changing Muslim names: one focuses on personal names and the other on toponyms.
    • First, identification of Turkish toponyms with those in the Venetian documents permits us to locate all the toponyms found in the Venetian sources.
    • Indeed, toponyms often embed the meaning of that place in their etymology.
    • Putting a toponym on a map, for example, does transform the cognitive geographical knowledge from verbal into hard-copy map medium, but it in no way erases other society-nature views related to it.
    • Documents from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially those written by road engineers suggesting the best routes for trails or railroads, give detailed hydrographic information with associated Amuesha toponyms.
    • Having given agency to the geometric ‘line’ itself, Boelhower envisages evasion of its universalising influence via cartographic toponyms whose inherent particularity opens ‘a trap door… in the written surface of the map’ .
    • Joined together by a red line that begins near the palace's law court, the first set consists of the two toponyms to the left of Tetzcoco's, Teotihuacan at left and Otompan at right.

Origin

1930s: from Greek topos 'place' + -onym.

 
 

Definition of toponym in US English:

toponym

nounˈtäpəˌnimˈtɑpəˌnɪm
  • A place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa.
    • The project relied on teamwork, the collection of toponyms, the drawing of sketch maps, and the interpretation of air photos.
    • Without literary traditions, they relied on mental maps for describing places and fixed specific locations using toponyms and oral descriptions.
    • The final two chapters expound on the controversial issue of changing Muslim names: one focuses on personal names and the other on toponyms.
    • The chapter, which takes up fewer than 30 pages, contains (by my count) nearly 200 toponyms of nations, counties, towns, streets, rivers, buildings, and other geographical features.
    • A second workshop was held in Caloveborita in September 1999 to review the census results and community mapping work and to transfer toponyms from the sketch maps to the cartographic sheets.
    • Indeed, toponyms often embed the meaning of that place in their etymology.
    • Putting a toponym on a map, for example, does transform the cognitive geographical knowledge from verbal into hard-copy map medium, but it in no way erases other society-nature views related to it.
    • The principal legacy left behind in those territories from which the language of the Britons were displaced is that of toponyms.
    • First, identification of Turkish toponyms with those in the Venetian documents permits us to locate all the toponyms found in the Venetian sources.
    • Toward the left of the upper horizontal band, just above the second and third from the left of the seven toponyms of the Tepanec Confederacy, traces remain of a calendrical date, either Four or Five Flint Knife.
    • Without literary traditions, rural folk share elaborate cognitive maps with others through the use of toponyms that give geographic orientations.
    • Joined together by a red line that begins near the palace's law court, the first set consists of the two toponyms to the left of Tetzcoco's, Teotihuacan at left and Otompan at right.
    • From left to right, the painter sets out the toponyms of seven Tepanec or affiliated altepemeh - the Tepanec Confederacy ruled by Azcapotzalco - in an approximate geographic order, with southeast at left and northwest at right.
    • Azoria is the local toponym for a distinctively rounded and double-peaked hill overlooking the Bay of Mirabello in northeastern Crete.
    • 4 The documentation includes maps with all known toponyms (historical cultural cartography), ethnohistory, census, socioeconomic study, and basic use zones.
    • To the right of Azcapotzalco's toponym and Maxtla's corpse bundle, the artist displays Nezahualcoyotl's two allies of the Triple Alliance, Itzcoatl and Totoquihuatzin, the tlahtoqueh of Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, respectively.
    • Documents from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially those written by road engineers suggesting the best routes for trails or railroads, give detailed hydrographic information with associated Amuesha toponyms.
    • Having given agency to the geometric ‘line’ itself, Boelhower envisages evasion of its universalising influence via cartographic toponyms whose inherent particularity opens ‘a trap door… in the written surface of the map’ .
    • The sources are complementary in identifying and locating toponyms, still a painstaking task, but immensely valuable for any study of settlement patterns.

Origin

1930s: from Greek topos ‘place’ + -onym.

 
 
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