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Synonyms for pseudonym

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sood-n-im
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsud n ɪm

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Définition of pseudonym

Origin :
  • 1828, in part a back-formation from pseudonymous, in part from German pseudonym and French pseudonyme (adj.), from Greek pseudonymos "having a false name, under a false name," from pseudes "false" (see pseudo-) + onyma, Aeolic dialectal variant of onoma "name" (see name (n.)).
  • "Possibly a dictionary word" at first [Barnhart]. Fowler calls it "a queer out-of-the-way term for an everyday thing." Properly in reference to made-up names; the name of an actual author or person of reputation affixed to a work he or she did not write is an allonym. An author's actual name affixed to his or her own work is an autonym (1867).
  • noun false name
Example sentences :
  • Possibly the same honor, under my pseudonym, may have been intended for me.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • Compare "pseudonym," where the prefix is contracted, and "nonentity."
  • Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
  • This was published in 1638, under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales.
  • Extract from : « Moon Lore » by Timothy Harley
  • He prefers, as his pseudonym implies, to remain an unknown quantity.
  • Extract from : « From Jungle to Java » by Arthur Keyser
  • It is he who figures in our story under the pseudonym of de Laville.
  • Extract from : « The Indian Chief » by Gustave Aimard
  • I could, if necessary, invent some disreputable things and attach them to his pseudonym.
  • Extract from : « A New Sensation » by Albert Ross
  • No poet of that name is known, and probably this is a pseudonym.
  • Extract from : « A History of Roman Literature » by Harold North Fowler
  • Reviews by him, under the pseudonym Emes, in Hausfreund, Vol.
  • Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener
  • It is sad to be compelled to say that this pseudonym cannot be accepted as genuine.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the "Britannia" » by E. P. Statham
  • The use of the pseudonym “Philalethes” has not been confined to one alchemist.
  • Extract from : « Alchemy: Ancient and Modern » by H. Stanley Redgrove

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