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/ˈs(j)uː.də(ʊ).nɪm/ · noun
A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars..
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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.
Use pseudonym when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pseudonym means A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars..
Common synonyms include anonym, nom de guerre.
Possible antonyms include autonym, orthonym, alethonym.
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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