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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A word or name that is used secretly to refer to another; a code name or code word.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A private, secret, or hidden name; a name which one bears in some society or brotherhood.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A secret name, a code name.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

Etymologies

  1. crypto- + -onym (Wiktionary)

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  • oroboros Also, a code word, once removed, i.e., a code word that secretly refers to another code word. Mar 5, 2007

  • trivet Code name. Mar 2, 2007

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‘cryptonym’ has been looked up 1768 times, loved by 1 person, added to 13 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 21.