单词 | pseudonym |
释义 | pseudonym (once / 5080 pages) n A pseudonym is a name that someone, often a writer, uses instead of their real name. The real name of Dr. Seuss was Theodore Seuss Geisel. Mark Twain was a pseudonym for the writer Samuel Clemens. A near synonym of pseudonym is pen name. Similarly, an allonym is the name of an important person in history that is taken by a writer as a pseudonym. Some of Shakespeare's plays might have been written by other writers using an allonym. If an actor uses a fake name, it is usually called a stage name. And there's no fancy work for nickname––it's just what your family and friends call you. WORD FAMILYpseudonym: pseudonymous, pseudonyms+/pseudonymous: pseudonymously USAGE EXAMPLESThis was where Publius Decius Mus began his career, alongside a handful of other writers, most of whom adopted Latin pseudonyms. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Under the pseudonym Anna Ruston, she writes about meeting a taxi driver she calls Malik when she was 15. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) In 2004, I interviewed 82 students at “MU,” a pseudonym for a large public four-year university in the midwestern United States, about their friendships. Salon(Dec 23, 2016) n a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role Syn|Hypo|Hyper anonym, nom de guerre stage name the pseudonym of an actor nom de plume, pen namean author's pseudonym name a language unit by which a person or thing is known |
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