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pseudonym

[sood-n-im] Origin

pseu·do·nym

[sood-n-im]
noun
a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def. 1).

Origin:
1840–50; < Greek pseudṓnymon false name; see pseud-, -onym


alias, nom de plume.

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Pseudonym is always a great word to know.
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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pseudonym (ˈsjuːdəˌnɪm)
 
n
a fictitious name adopted, esp by an author
 
[C19: via French from Greek pseudōnumon]
 
pseudo'nymity
 
n

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pseudonym
1706 (in pseudonymous), from Fr. pseudonyme (adj.), from Gk. pseudonymos "having a false name," from pseudes "false" + onyma dial. form of "name." Properly of 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
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name affixed to his or her work is an autonym (1867). Pseudonymous first recorded 1706.
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