"aptronym" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "inaptronym"
    },
    {
      "word": "misnomer"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "apt",
        "3": "patronym"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of apt + patronym",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of apt + patronym.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aptronyms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aptronym (plural aptronyms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -nym",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -onym",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "aptronymic"
        },
        {
          "word": "aptronymous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1993, Danielle Schaub, \"Mavis Gallant's Double Illusion\", in, 1993, Jean-Michael Lacroix, Simone Vauthier, and Héliane Ventura, editors, Image et Récit, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, page 82 http://google.com/books?id=yKi_z2XYb00C&pg=PA82&dq=aptronym",
          "text": "Speck also turns out to be a shopkeeper whose small-town mentality finds a reflection in his aptronym: \"Speck\" in German meaning bacon, he is the local butcher concerned with selling his merchandise regardless of its real quality."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Lorna Fitzsimmons, “Of ‘Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower’: Gyno-Turning in Limit Up and Svankmajer’s Faust”, chapter 12 of Wendy Everett (editor), The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity, Rodopi, page 149",
          "text": "This contradiction is condensed within the aptronym Casey Falls: her first name recalls Jim Casy, the preacher who is sacrificed helping migrant workers in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, while her surname evokes Eve and the Fall."
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 2004, Peter Cosgrove, \"History and Utopia in Ormond\", in, 2004, Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske, editors, An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts, Delaware page 77 http://google.com/books?id=HL0MH3x0ODUC&pg=PA77&dq=aptronym",
          "text": "The latter after marrying Sir Ulick's steward becomes Mrs. M'Crule, an aptronym expressing her excessive bigotry in preventing the Catholic boy, Tommy Dunshaughlin, from attending a charity school."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A name that is aptly suited to its owner."
      ],
      "id": "en-aptronym-en-noun-xJewMApb",
      "links": [
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "aptly",
          "aptly"
        ],
        [
          "suited",
          "suited"
        ],
        [
          "owner",
          "owner"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "apronym"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
          "word": "euonym"
        },
        {
          "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
          "word": "aptonym"
        },
        {
          "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
          "word": "charactonym"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aptronym"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "inaptronym"
    },
    {
      "word": "misnomer"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "aptronymic"
    },
    {
      "word": "aptronymous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "apt",
        "3": "patronym"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of apt + patronym",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of apt + patronym.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aptronyms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "aptronym (plural aptronyms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "apronym"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -nym",
        "English terms suffixed with -onym"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1993, Danielle Schaub, \"Mavis Gallant's Double Illusion\", in, 1993, Jean-Michael Lacroix, Simone Vauthier, and Héliane Ventura, editors, Image et Récit, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, page 82 http://google.com/books?id=yKi_z2XYb00C&pg=PA82&dq=aptronym",
          "text": "Speck also turns out to be a shopkeeper whose small-town mentality finds a reflection in his aptronym: \"Speck\" in German meaning bacon, he is the local butcher concerned with selling his merchandise regardless of its real quality."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Lorna Fitzsimmons, “Of ‘Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower’: Gyno-Turning in Limit Up and Svankmajer’s Faust”, chapter 12 of Wendy Everett (editor), The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity, Rodopi, page 149",
          "text": "This contradiction is condensed within the aptronym Casey Falls: her first name recalls Jim Casy, the preacher who is sacrificed helping migrant workers in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, while her surname evokes Eve and the Fall."
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 2004, Peter Cosgrove, \"History and Utopia in Ormond\", in, 2004, Heidi Kaufman and Chris Fauske, editors, An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts, Delaware page 77 http://google.com/books?id=HL0MH3x0ODUC&pg=PA77&dq=aptronym",
          "text": "The latter after marrying Sir Ulick's steward becomes Mrs. M'Crule, an aptronym expressing her excessive bigotry in preventing the Catholic boy, Tommy Dunshaughlin, from attending a charity school."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A name that is aptly suited to its owner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "name",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "aptly",
          "aptly"
        ],
        [
          "suited",
          "suited"
        ],
        [
          "owner",
          "owner"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
      "word": "euonym"
    },
    {
      "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
      "word": "aptonym"
    },
    {
      "sense": "personal name appropriate to one's character or trade",
      "word": "charactonym"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aptronym"
}