Associations to the word «Exonym»

Wiktionary

EXONYM, noun. A place name or a personal name used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as Moscow in English for the city called Moskva in Russian, or such as Charles in English for historical people called Karl or Carl in their Germanic languages.
EXONYM, noun. A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke