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pseudonym

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pseudonym \Pseu"do*nym\, n. [Cf. F. pseudonyme. See Pseudonymous .] A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name; an alias. [Written also pseudonyme .]

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role [syn: anonym , nom de guerre ]

Usage examples of pseudonym.

That had been the first appearance of the pseudonym Ned Buntline, a name taken from the line attached to the bottom of a square-rigged sail.

His name was, and is, a secret known to only a few, but as his best-known pseudonym is the Reverend Jim de Licious, we shall know him by this name alone.

Could you extend your hand in fellowship, in friendship, in loveship to the one-dimensional promise of a pseudonym?

I think it is highly significant that even after the frenzy created by the Jack the Ripper pseudonym, the writer of the Lusk letter does not use it.

Gordon Daviot pseudonym, and it introduced the character of Inspector Grant, familiar now from the Tey novels.

Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.

Scotist, Thomist, Realist, Nominalist, Papist, Calvinist, Molinist, Jansenist, are only pseudonyms.

Lousteau, warned by his fellow-schoolfellows, who could not remember Jan Diaz, waited for information from Sancerre, and learned that Jan Diaz was a pseudonym assumed by a woman.

Leaving Poppy in bed, he plugged in his computer, accessed his e-mail, then ran a quick search of Cindy pseudonyms.

In the long tradition of alchemists who chose to write treatises on their subject, the author had assigned himself a flamboyant pseudonym.

White Castle people beyond the home office managers who actually hired her knew the name Ella Louise Agniel, because from the first moment of her employment, Agniel was given the pseudonym Julia Joyce for all her official company duties.

It hard to say because so much of his early stuff appeared under pseudonyms of one sort or another, but an undoubted story of his appeared in 1941 when he was twenty-one.

Another thing in her favor was the inherent difficulty ancients seemed to have in understanding the importance of technology, which to her meant commissioning a computer database, based on her own design, that could access and cross-reference real estate records, land titles, newspaper reports, census information, birth and death certificates, and maps, scanning them for known identities and pseudonyms of the so-called Ruling Class.

Richard Roe and John Doe, legal pseudonyms used by the Court to describe unidentified people in a legal warrant.

Horsey, horsey catkins,'' snarled Hoskins desperately searching for a pseudonym that would deceive anyone listening in on the switchboard.