In linguistics and grammar, a toponym is a name derived from a place or a region.
This is a list of toponyms, followed by the name of the place it is derived from.
Acapulco (as in ... gold)\n* Angora\n* Armageddon\n* Auschwitz\n* Babel\n* Balkanization, a geopolitical term for the fragmentation of a region — the Balkans, region in southeastern Europe\n* Bantustan\n* Bay St\n* Beltway\n* Berlin Wall\n* Bible, bibliography — Byblos, city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon\n* Bikini\n* the Blarney and Blarney Stone — Blarney Castle\n* Boetian\n* Bohemian\n* Bombay duck, a kind of fish — Bombay, old name for Mumbai, coastal city in western India\n* Bordeaux\n* Brazilianization\n* Bronx Cheer\n* Brummagem, goods of shoddy quality — Birmingham, city in England\n* Bungalow\n* Byzantine\n* Canary\n* Carthaginian (peace)\n* Caucasian\n* Chautauqua\n* China\n* Chinese Wall\n* Coach — the village Kocs in Hungary where this vehicle was first made\n* Sent to Coventry\n* Denim\n* Detroit\n* Dijon\n* Dixieland music — Dixies or "Dixies land", a nickname for the south-eastern states of the United States.\n* Dollar\n* Donneybrook\n* Doolally\n* Duffel, heavy woollen cloth — Duffel, a town in Belgium\n* Eden (place of dubious existence)\n* El Dorado\n* Essex, 'common' or 'nouveau riche' sensibility — Essex, a county near London\n* Fez, (also called tarboosh), a hat — Fez, a city in Morocco\n* Finlandization\n* Fleet Street\n* Frankfurter\n* Georgia, a font from Microsoft — Georgia (U.S. state)\n* Gibraltar\n* Greek, a language usage ("all Greek to me") — Greek language of Greece\n* Gypsies, nomadic peoples in Europe and United States — Egypt\n* Havana (cigar)\n* Hell, usage in language — Hell, mythical place\n* Hicksville\n* Holland, cotton or linen fabric — Holland\n* Hollandaise\n* Hollywood\n* Iliad (see Troy)\n* Indian\n* Java\n* Jersey cattle (also tomato, milk, cream, jumper) — Jersey, one of the Channel Islands\n* Labyrinth\n* Left Bank, style of life, fashion, or "look" — "Left Bank", bank of the Seine which is to the left, near Paris\n* Lesbian, homosexual — Lesbos, island in Greece\n* Lilliputian, meaning very small sized — Lilliput, fictional island in the book Gulliver's Travels\n* Madison Avenue, a metaphor for advertising — Madison Avenue, a street in New York\n* Magenta, colour — Magenta, town in northern Italy\n* Marathon, long race — Marathon, Greece, town\n* Madras, lightweight cotton fabic — Madras, old name for Chennai, coastal city in southeastern India\n* Main Street\n* Manchester (as in textiles)\n* Manila envelopes, Manila fiber — Manila, city in Philippines\n* Marseillaise, national anthem of France — Marseille, city in France\n* Masada\n* Mausoleum, a large and impressive tomb — Mausoleum of Maussollos in Turkey\n* Mecca, ultimate destination or activity center — Mecca, holy city in Saudi Arabia\n* Mocha coffee, ice cream — Mocha, Yemen, place where the coffee is grown\n* Mongoloid race — Mongolia, country in northern Asia\n* Motown\n* Maus\n* Neanderthal man, known by his fossils — Neanderthal, Germany, valley where the fossils were found\n* Nuremberg Trials — Nuremberg, German city where the trials were held\n* Olympics, worldwide games — Mount Olympus, tallest mountain in Greece\n* Paisley (design), used in shawls — Paisley, Scotland\n* Palookaville\n* Peoria (tribe), Native American tribe — Peoria, Arizona, Peoria, Illinois, Peoria County, Illinois\n* Peyton Place\n* the Rubicon, the point of no return — Rubicon (or Rubico), Latin name for a small river in northern Italy\n* Rugby football — Rugby School, in Rugby, central England\n* Sardine, tyepes of small fish — Sardinia, island in the Mediterranean near Italy\n* Seltzer (commercial name)\n* Shambala\n* Shanghai woman, English expression for a prostitute — Shanghai, China's largest city\n* Shangri-La, a mythical utopia, a language usage — Shangri-La, fictional place in the novel Lost Horizon\n* Siamese twins, conjoined twins — Siam, old name for Thailand\n* Siberia, a remote undesirable location — Siberia, in eastern Russia\n* Sodomy, forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Jordan River\n* Solecism, incorrect or ungrammatical usage of language — Soli, ancient city on the island of Cyprus, where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken\n* Spa, place having water with health-giving properties — Spa, a municipality in Belgium\n* Stalingrad\n* Surrey, horse-drawn carriage — Surrey, southern England\n* Timbuktu, metaphor for an exotic, distant land — Timbuktu, city on the Niger River in Mali, West Africa\n* Tin Pan Alley\n* Trojan horse, malicious computer virus — Trojan Horse, of Troy, from the Illiad\n* Trojaned\n* Utopia, term for organized society — Utopia, fictional republic from the book of the same name\n* Wall Street, financial market — Wall Street, a narrow thoroughfare in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River.\n* Watergate, American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s — Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C\n* Woodstock Festival, music and art festival held in August, 1969 — venue of the festival Woodstock, New York\n* Xanadu, a symbol of opulence — Xanadu (or Shangdu), summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire\n* Zion
