namefellow

English

Etymology

From name +‎ fellow.

Noun

namefellow (plural namefellows)

1. (rare, poetic) A person with whom one shares a surname or given name, or both.
   • 1882, A.C. Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse; the protagonist of the poem travels to Brittany, where he meets another knight named Tristam, where they are described thus:

     But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes / Might find them, lay those knightly name-fellows, / One sick with grief of heart and sleepless, one / With heart of hope triumphant as the sun

Alternative forms

• name-fellow

Translations

someone with whom one shares a name — see namesake