pseudonym — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.

   Synonyms

   anonymbynameto-name

   Antonyms

   autonymorthonymalethonym

   Related words

   codenamedysphemismeuphemismnom de code

   Examples

   The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

   More examples (3)

   I doubt, indeed, whether I should not abandon the struggle altogether—leave this sad world of ordinary life for which I am so ill fitted, abandon the name of Cummins for some professional pseudonym, complete my self-effacement, and—a thing of tricks and tatters, of posing and pretence—go upon the stage.

   The best example of its literary use so far are the German novel The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink, and the drama The Dybbuk, by the jewish writer using the pseudonym "Ansky".

   “I, at first, tried to say, ‘Well, maybe it was an accident. Maybe it got stuck in a printer.’ That was my first thought,” Parker, who requested to go by a pseudonym due to fear of retaliation, tells Them.

Noun

1. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role

   Synonyms

   anonymnom de guerre

   Broader terms

   name