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单词 incognito
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Definition of incognito in English:

incognito

adverb & adjective ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtəʊ
  • (of a person) having one's true identity concealed.

    as adjective in order to observe you have to be incognito
    as adverb he is now operating incognito
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With the president said to spend no more than one or two nights in the same place, to travel incognito and even to employ mustachioed, cigar-chomping lookalikes, this could prove easier said than done.
    • Her new book Dirt Cheap is an expose of life ‘at the wrong end of the job market’ and involved the author working in a string of low-paid jobs incognito.
    • And perhaps such a chance encounter could turn out to be the equivalent of winning the lottery, when a minor favour to an incognito king brought great reward.
    • Over the next month judges will visit each of the restaurants incognito and give their verdict.
    • The crime writer had a horror of the press, and she would always attempt to travel incognito, choosing places where she was unlikely to be recognised.
    • He ended up dying - fighting against his own people incognito.
    • ‘I don't remove my mask in the presence of people, it would ruin that whole incognito thing I have been going for,’ he said half joking.
    • Turns out the rap sheet is a mile long - and he, like me, goes incognito.
    • As for Mussolini, rumours circulated that he attended one of the performances incognito.
    • With distinction and excellence writ large over their existence, even when they are forced to live incognito lives, their brilliance soon gives them away and the rest of the less endowed people are soon after their blood.
    • Dr Johnson was famously won over after a long conversation with the King in 1767, while numerous stories abound of the King visiting farms incognito.
    • Charles, now 22 and eager to be married, persuaded his father to let him make an incognito romantic journey to Spain.
    • With cyber con artists hungry for ways to launch attacks incognito, the study found that at least 1 million computers were under their control worldwide.
    • The road to perversion is cast with such anonymous faces, individuals incognito.
    • They waited while he filled two glasses with a pale brown liquid and gave them to the incognito agents.
    • On Sunday morning, Meena had teamed up with her friend Ramba and the two had tried to make an incognito visit by car to the Subramania Swamy Temple at Maruthamalai.
    • As the incognito president cries out for justice, the police inform him that he is a wanted man.
    • He showed up at the games incognito and stayed in makeshift barracks.
    • There was certainly a Green and Labor presence trailing in his wake but the majority of the abuse was launched at him from incognito locals.
    • When he is in Austin, he wears a hat and sunglasses and does the whole incognito routine.
    Synonyms
    under an assumed name, under a false name, with one's identity concealed, in disguise, disguised, under cover, in plain clothes, camouflaged
    unrecognized, unidentified
    secretly, covertly, anonymously
    informal incog
nounPlural incognitos ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtəʊˌɪnkɑɡˈnidoʊ
  • An assumed or false identity.

    she is locked in her incognito
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Leach is a minor character and the fact that Larsen effortlessly penetrated his incognito has no central plot significance.
    • He is said to be one of our leading playwrights, who may have reasons transcending merely legal ones for his incognito.
    • William thinks it's farcical and plays it up but amongst friends incognitos are simply unfunny bores.
    • The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
    • ‘The observer,’ he concludes, ‘is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.’
    Synonyms
    pen name, assumed name, alias, false name, professional name, sobriquet, stage name, nickname

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Italian, literally 'unknown', from Latin incognitus, from in- 'not' + cognitus (past participle of cognoscere 'know').

  • The word incognito, ‘having your true identity concealed’, came from Italian in the mid 17th century. The Latin root is cognoscere ‘to know’ (see also quaint). At first incognito could mean simply ‘unknown’, without any implication of disguise or concealment, and was used mainly of royals or dignitaries who did not want to be recognized. In the 20th century the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan (1927–80) wrote, ‘The disguise…renders him as effectively incognito as a walrus in a ballet-skirt’.

Rhymes

Benito, bonito, burrito, coquito, graffito, Hirohito, Ito, magneto, Miskito, mosquito, Quito, Tito, veto
 
 

Definition of incognito in US English:

incognito

adjective & adverbˌinkäɡˈnēdōˌɪnkɑɡˈnidoʊ
  • (of a person) having one's true identity concealed.

    as adjective in order to observe you have to be incognito
    as adverb he is now operating incognito
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On Sunday morning, Meena had teamed up with her friend Ramba and the two had tried to make an incognito visit by car to the Subramania Swamy Temple at Maruthamalai.
    • They waited while he filled two glasses with a pale brown liquid and gave them to the incognito agents.
    • As the incognito president cries out for justice, the police inform him that he is a wanted man.
    • He showed up at the games incognito and stayed in makeshift barracks.
    • Turns out the rap sheet is a mile long - and he, like me, goes incognito.
    • The crime writer had a horror of the press, and she would always attempt to travel incognito, choosing places where she was unlikely to be recognised.
    • When he is in Austin, he wears a hat and sunglasses and does the whole incognito routine.
    • There was certainly a Green and Labor presence trailing in his wake but the majority of the abuse was launched at him from incognito locals.
    • Her new book Dirt Cheap is an expose of life ‘at the wrong end of the job market’ and involved the author working in a string of low-paid jobs incognito.
    • He ended up dying - fighting against his own people incognito.
    • Over the next month judges will visit each of the restaurants incognito and give their verdict.
    • Dr Johnson was famously won over after a long conversation with the King in 1767, while numerous stories abound of the King visiting farms incognito.
    • With cyber con artists hungry for ways to launch attacks incognito, the study found that at least 1 million computers were under their control worldwide.
    • With distinction and excellence writ large over their existence, even when they are forced to live incognito lives, their brilliance soon gives them away and the rest of the less endowed people are soon after their blood.
    • The road to perversion is cast with such anonymous faces, individuals incognito.
    • With the president said to spend no more than one or two nights in the same place, to travel incognito and even to employ mustachioed, cigar-chomping lookalikes, this could prove easier said than done.
    • As for Mussolini, rumours circulated that he attended one of the performances incognito.
    • Charles, now 22 and eager to be married, persuaded his father to let him make an incognito romantic journey to Spain.
    • ‘I don't remove my mask in the presence of people, it would ruin that whole incognito thing I have been going for,’ he said half joking.
    • And perhaps such a chance encounter could turn out to be the equivalent of winning the lottery, when a minor favour to an incognito king brought great reward.
    Synonyms
    under an assumed name, under a false name, with one's identity concealed, in disguise, disguised, under cover, in plain clothes, camouflaged
    under an assumed name, under a false name, with one's identity concealed, in disguise, disguised, under cover, in plain clothes, camouflaged
nounˌinkäɡˈnēdōˌɪnkɑɡˈnidoʊ
  • An assumed or false identity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • William thinks it's farcical and plays it up but amongst friends incognitos are simply unfunny bores.
    • ‘The observer,’ he concludes, ‘is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.’
    • Leach is a minor character and the fact that Larsen effortlessly penetrated his incognito has no central plot significance.
    • He is said to be one of our leading playwrights, who may have reasons transcending merely legal ones for his incognito.
    • The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
    Synonyms
    pen name, assumed name, alias, false name, professional name, sobriquet, stage name, nickname

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Italian, literally ‘unknown’, from Latin incognitus, from in- ‘not’ + cognitus (past participle of cognoscere ‘know’).

 
 
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