pen name

See also: penname and pen-name

English

Alternative forms

• pen-name, penname

Noun

pen name (plural pen names)

1. 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

writer's pseudonym

• Breton: anv-pluenn (br) m
• Bulgarian: литературен псевдоним m (literaturen psevdonim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆名 (zh), 笔名 (zh) (bǐmíng)

• Dutch: pseudoniem (nl) n
• Finnish: nimimerkki (fi), kirjailijanimi
• French: nom de guerre (fr) m, nom de plume (fr) m
• German: Schriftstellername m, Künstlername (de) m
• Hebrew: שם עט‎ (he) m (shem et)
• Hindi: छद्मनाम (chadmanām)
• Hungarian: írói álnév
• Irish: ainm bréige m, ainm cleite m
• Italian: nome di penna m

• Japanese: ペンネーム (ja) (pennēmu), 筆名 (ja) (ひつめい, hitsumei)
• Korean: 필명 (ko) (pilmyeong)
• Maori: ingoa tito
• Norman: nom-d'plieunme m (Jersey)
• Polish: pseudonim (pl) m literacki (pl)
• Portuguese: pseudônimo (pt)
• Russian: псевдони́м (ru) m (psevdoním), литерату́рный псевдони́м m (literatúrnyj psevdoním)
• Spanish: seudónimo (es)
• Swedish: pseudonym (sv) c
• Tagalog: sagisag-panulat
• Thai: นามปากกา (th) (naam-bpàak-gaa)
• Turkish: kalem adı, mahlas (tr), müstear isim
• Vietnamese: biệt hiệu (vi), bút danh (vi), tên chữ (vi), tên tự (vi)

Further reading

• pen name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia