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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An anonymous person.
  2. n. A pseudonym.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An assumed or false name.
  2. n. An anonymous person.
  3. n. In zoology, a mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.
  4. n. Also spelled anonyme.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An anonymous person.
  2. n. An assumed or false name; a pseudonym.
  3. n. zoology A mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for “pseudonym.”
  2. n. rare A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role

Etymologies

  1. Coined or borrowed around 1812, from French anonyme. (Wiktionary)
  2. French anonyme, from Late Latin anōnymus, anonymous; see anonymous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Wow, anonym, that is an amazingly ignorant comment.”

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

  • “Unless 'anonym' is a common term in sci-fi thrillers, you'd do well to define it.”

    HH Com 546

  • “Strangely, the system allowed me to post as anonym only - but I'm the good old Lady Jane Grey”

    Bespoke Perfumes? Perfume in the Glossies March 2008.

  • “And indeed, beyond its chic-looking lobby, behind the large black doors, the style-conscious anonym (and several other visitors) described a backroom with cages and fenced-in playpens more typical of a traditional shelter.”

    Dog Days in Meat Market As Trendy WoofSpa Shutters

  • “Hijacking every video screen, the anonym delivers an ultimatum.”

    12/24/2006 - 12/31/2006

  • “Yeah this is totally one of those areas fair weather bloggers will totally slam, and later when iphone is down on its luck will do a 180 and slam it for not having a physical keyboard. reply anonym”

    HTC Killed The Physical Keyboard. Smart Move.

  • “If so, the anonym must have lived before the Sung Dynasty.”

    The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu

  • “Harper's Weekly — happily no one can now prove them on me, for even at that jejune period I had the prudence to use an anonym — the Harpers, luckily for me, declined to publish a volume of my poems.”

    Marse Henry : an autobiography,

  • “Though I wrote verses for the early issues of Harper's Weekly -- happily no one can now prove them on me, for even at that jejune period I had the prudence to use an anonym -- the Harpers, luckily for me, declined to publish”

    Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography

  • “Although to buffet an anonym is to beat the air, still the very effort does good.”

    Arabian nights. English

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  • seanahan As Bilby says, intriguing.... I suppose when doing this you are being anonymous, but I would have thought this meant to go without using any name. Dec 28, 2007

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