nom de plume

Noun

Meaning

an author's pseudonym

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

nom-de-plume

Synonyms

pen name name title incognito handle nickname designation anonymous tag denomination pseudonym epithet alias appellation surname
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Antonyms

name forename moniker praenomen first name given name
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Hypernyms

pseudonym anonym nom de guerre

Related terms

nom de guerre

Examples

Cornetist Rex Stewart recalled that Morton had chosen "the nom de plume 'Morton' to protect his family from disgrace if he was identified as a whorehouse 'professor'." Source: Internet

In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Source: Internet

Mansel, 70. Suleiman himself was an accomplished poet, writing in Persian and Turkish under the takhallus (nom de plume) Muhibbi ( محبی main, "Lover"). Source: Internet

Nabokov stayed in Berlin, where he had become a recognised poet and writer within the émigré community and published under the nom de plume V. Sirin (a reference to the fabulous bird of Russian folklore). Source: Internet

; nom de plume : originally a "back-translation" from the English "pen name": author's pseudonym. ; nouveau (pl. Source: Internet

After the war she returned to Houston and became a columnist for the Houston Chronicle writing under the nom de plume of “ACEess.” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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