Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An anonymous person.
- n. A pseudonym.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An assumed or false name.
- n. An anonymous person.
- n. In zoology, a mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.
- n. Also spelled anonyme.
Wiktionary
- n. An anonymous person.
- n. An assumed or false name; a pseudonym.
- n. A mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for “pseudonym.”
- n. A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role
Etymologies
- French anonyme, from Late Latin anōnymus, anonymous; see anonymous.
Examples
“Wow, anonym, that is an amazingly ignorant comment.”
“Unless 'anonym' is a common term in sci-fi thrillers, you'd do well to define it.”
“Strangely, the system allowed me to post as anonym only - but I'm the good old Lady Jane Grey”
“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.”
“Hijacking every video screen, the anonym delivers an ultimatum.”
“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”
“If so, the anonym must have lived before the Sung Dynasty.”
“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.”
“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”
“Although to buffet an anonym is to beat the air, still the very effort does good.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anonym’.
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harmonygritz's Cross Words
Words discovered while doing puzzles. Includes puns, e.g. taper vs. tapir.
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-onym, -onymous, -onymic
denoting or relating to names
acronym, synonymous, patronymic, antonym, ananym, anonym, aptronym, autonym, caconym, cohyponym, cryptonym, dionym and 29 more...
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