pen name

noun

an author's pseudonym

• Syn: ↑nom de plume

• Hypernyms: ↑pseudonym, ↑anonym, ↑nom de guerre

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[noun]

pseudonym, nom de plume

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▶ noun PSEUDONYM, nom de plume, assumed name, alias, professional name. See list at pseudonym.

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noun

: an author's pseudonym : nom de plume

writes both under his own name and under a pen name

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a pseudonym used by an author; nom de plume.

[1840-50]

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pen name noun

A writer's assumed name

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Main Entry: ↑pen

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pen name UK US noun [countable] [singular pen name plural pen names]

a name a writer uses instead of their real name on stories, articles etc that they write

Thesaurus: relating to writing and editing_hyponym to write something_synonym

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pen name,

a name used by a writer instead of his real name; nom de plume; pseudonym: »

Voltaire was the pen name of François Marie Arouet, a French author and philosopher (Otis Fellows). As a way of sloughing off one personality and acquiring a new one, the pen name is not a new idea, nor historically limited to the arts (Harper's).

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n. an assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name

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noun, pl ⋯ names [count]

: a name used by a writer instead of the writer's real name

Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”