pseudonym

Noun

Meaning

A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anonym nom de guerre incognito handle nickname designation denomination epithet alias appellation denotation cognomen sobriquet byname soubriquet

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Antonyms

forename first name given name birth name alethonym

Hypernyms

name

Hyponyms

pen name nom de plume stage name

Phrases with the word

artistic pseudonym literary pseudonym pseudonym adopted by an author author's pseudonym who goes by the pseudonym

Examples

The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign. Anatole France

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Théophile Gautier

She wanted to test her husband. She knew exactly what to do: A pseudonym to fool him. She couldn't have made a worse move. Kate Bush

I regard it as a pseudonym and I don't really have a problem with it. Jimmy Wales

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily. Joyce Carol Oates

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Anatole France

Close letter words and terms

pseudonumity pseudonutrition pseudonutritional pseudonym adopted by an author pseudonymal pseudonymic