pen name

See also: penname and pen-name

English

Alternative forms

• pen-name

Noun

pen name (plural pen names)

1. A fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name.

Synonyms

• nom de plume

Hypernyms

• alias, pseudonym

Translations

name used by author

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆名 (zh), 笔名 (zh) (bǐmíng)

• Dutch: pseudoniem (nl) n
• Finnish: nimimerkki (fi), pseudonyymi (fi)
• French: nom de plume (fr) m
• German: Pseudonym (de) n, Schriftstellername m, Künstlername (de) m
• Hebrew: שם עט‏‎ (he) m (shem et)
• Hungarian: írói álnév
• Irish: ainm bréige m, ainm cleite m

• Japanese: ペンネーム (ja) (pennēmu), 筆名 (ja) (ひつめい, hitsumei)
• Korean: 필명 (ko) (pilmyeong)
• 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