urbanonym

/ɛɹˈbænoʊˌnɪm/

Etymology

From urban + -onym.

urbanonym means the name of an urban element (street, square etc.) in towns and cities. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

noun

The name of an urban element (street, square etc.) in towns and cities.“Due to the peculiar characteristics of their functioning, urbanonyms are instrumental in forming or transforming the historical memory of society. […] If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary ”