Meaning of hodonymy | Babel Free

Definitions

The naming of streets and roads.

uncountable

Examples

“The list given below concentrates mainly on published material dealing with road-names (hodonymy).”

“Peter Wahl and Evan Bogan treat in "Street-names in Lyngby-Taarbask municipality"" and "The street-names of Copenhagen — from Køkkedal to Ishøj and Dragør to Værløse'"' respectively some interesting sectors of the hodonymy of the metropolitan region.”

“The branch of onomastic science that studies the names of streets and roads is hodonymy. Because street names appear on detailed maps, they are rightfully a sub-division of geographic names.”

“The second period of street-naming in the history of Moldova is connected with the Soviet period. In 1940, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Bessarabia became part of the Soviet Union. Sovietization also affects hodonymy.”

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