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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
  2. adj. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.
  3. adj. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: "a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace” ( Alan Paton).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Wanting a name; not named and determined, as an animal not assigned to any species.
  2. Without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like: as, an anonymous pamphlet; an anonymous subscription.
  3. Of unknown name; whose name is withheld: as, an anonymous author.
  4. Often abbreviated to anon.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. not comparable Lacking a name; not named and determined, as an animal not assigned to any species.
  2. adj. not comparable Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible, as that of author, contributor, or the like.
  3. adj. not comparable Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
  4. adj. comparable Lacking individuality.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having no known name or identity or known source
  2. adj. not known or lacking marked individuality

Etymologies

  1. Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anōnumos, "without name"), from ἀν- (an, "without") + ὄνυμα (onuma), Aeolic dialectal form of ὄνομα (onoma, "name"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Late Latin anōnymus, from Greek anōnumos, nameless : an-, without; see a-1 + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nōnumnos, nameless); see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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