Pseudonym

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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