Antonomasia

Examples

Persons

• "El Caudillo" for Francisco Franco
• "El Jefe" for Rafael Trujillo
• "Il Duce" for Benito Mussolini
• "La Divina" for Maria Callas
• "La Stupenda" for Joan Sutherland
• "Man of Steel" or simply "Steel" for Joseph Stalin
• "Mr. Soul" for Sam Cooke
• "Old Blue Eyes" or "The Chairman of the Board" for Frank Sinatra
• "Pelides" or "the son of Peleus" for Achilles
• "Son of Laertes" or "Man of Pain" for Odysseus
• "The Bambino" for Babe Ruth
• "The Bard" for William Shakespeare
• "The Big Bopper" for Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr
• "The Boss" for Bruce Springsteen
• "The Commentator" for Averroes
• "The Don" for Sir Donald Bradman
• "The Fab Four" for The Beatles
• "The First Lady of Song" for Ella Fitzgerald
• "The Führer" for Adolf Hitler
• "The Genius of the Carpathians" for Nicolae Ceausescu
• "The Gipper" or "The Great Communicator" for Ronald Reagan
• "The Great Commoner" for Winston Churchill
• "The Great Emancipator" for Abraham Lincoln
• "The Great Silent One" for Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
• "The Greatest" for Muhammad Ali
• "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business" or "Soul Brother Number 1" or “The Godfather of Soul” for James Brown
• "The High Priestess of Soul" for Nina Simone
• "The Iron Chancellor" for Otto von Bismarck
• "The Iron Lady" or "The Leaderene" for Margaret Thatcher
• "The King of Pop" for Michael Jackson
• "The King" for Elvis Presley
• "The Little Corporal" for Napoleon
• "The Little Master" for Sachin Tendulkar
• "The Mahatma" for Mohandas Gandhi
• "The Master of Suspense" for Alfred Hitchcock
• "The Prince of Darkness" for William Francis Galvin
• "The Queen of Pop" or "The Material Girl" for Madonna
• "The Little Private" for Adolf Hitler before the Machtergreifung
• "The Queen of Soul" for Aretha Franklin
• "The Red Baron" for Manfred von Richthofen
• "The Shah" for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• "The Stagirite" or "The Philosopher" for Aristotle
• "The Steel Butterfly" for Imelda Marcos
• "The Tiger of Mysore" for Tipu Sultan

  Fictional characters

• "The Boy Who Lived" for Harry Potter
• "The Dark Knight" or "The Caped Crusader" for Batman
• "The Man of Steel" or the "Man of Tomorrow" for Superman
• "The Mother of Dragons" for Daenerys Targaryen

  Works of art

• "The Scottish play" for Macbeth

  Places

• "Auld Reekie" for Edinburgh
• "City of Dreams" for Mumbai
• "The Southamerican Athens" for Bogotá
• "La La Land" for Los Angeles
• "The Big Apple" for New York City
• "The City of Light" for Paris
• "The Eternal City" or "Urbe" for Rome
• "The Smoke" for London
• "The Windy City" for Chicago
• "The White City" for the World's Columbian Exposition
• "The City of Hundred Gates" for ancient Thebes, Egypt
• "The City of Palaces" for Mexico City
• "The City of Kings" for Lima, Peru
• "The Emerald City" for Land of Oz
• "The Little Paris" for Paceco

  Opposite examples