pen name
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
- A fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym.
- Synonym: nom de plume
- Hypernyms: alias, pseudonym
- 1998, Bill Munster, Discovering Dean Koontz, Wildside Press LLC (→ISBN), page 64:
- Within a week of King's acknowledging the Bachman pen name, several sources —publishers, book dealers, readers, and fans—had mentioned a number of possible other pseudonyms; obviously, if King admitted to two pen names, John Swithen and Richard Bachmann, there might be others.
- 2002, Jacqueline Ching, Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary Woman, The Rosen Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 19:
- In their time, it was fashionable to sign letters using a pen name. These pen names were borrowed from characters in classical literature.
Translations[edit]
writer's pseudonym
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