Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A word or name that is used secretly to refer to another; a code name or code word.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A private, secret, or hidden name; a name which one bears in some society or brotherhood.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
Etymologies
- crypto- + -onym (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[11] A cryptonym is a combination of a two-letter digraph, which are either free-standing (e.g.,”
“Alex was the cryptonym for Colonel Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky of the GRU, a man who had provided the British and American intelligence services with information beyond price.”
“The agent's cryptonym was Night Stock, and his real name was Marcel Tiraque.”
“The Hypermarket material was straightforward. just as Oleg Penkovsky had slandered the Railton name, by directly suggesting that his cover was blown by an agent of influence working under the cryptonym Dionysus, so Blunt had, in a couple of sentences during one of the recent interrogation sessions, provided back-up mentions.”
“By the end of 1935 he was fully operational, with the cryptonym Dionysus.”
“It was not the mark of the infamous “Mendez”, but some newcomer with the lame cryptonym of “Radar”.”
“Once, sixteen tempo engineers, summarily banished to Asia Minor, decided to build a time main to escape, under the guise of constructing some sort of tower or dome; the name given to it was the cryptonym-password of their plot Banished Asian Builder's Escape League.”
“Tartar was only a cryptonym by which heretics knew each other, and adds: _Il n'y a donc pas trop à s'etonner des noms bizarres de”
“America, after its CIA cryptonym, and as the 28 Mordad 1332 coup in Iran, after its date on the Iranian calendar.”
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“The American operation came to be known as Operation Ajax in America, after its CIA cryptonym, and as the”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cryptonym’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Names for Names
Source and definitions: http://phrontistery.info/name.html
acronym, allonym, ananym, anonym, antonym, aptronym, autonym, caconym, cohyponym, cryptonym, dionym, eponym and 26 more...
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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...
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Nyms
synonym, antonym, eudonym, retronym, homonym, womonym, ananym, aptronym, autoantonym, bacronym, capitonym, endonym and 16 more...
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Cryptography, etc.
Codes, ciphers, and other words related to secret ways of communicating. See also Keeping Secrets, a list by oroboros.
cryptography, steganography, code, cipher, substitution cipher, secret code, decoder ring, encryption, code word, code name, password, atbash and 31 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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-nym words
contranym, retronym, acronym, toponym, eponym, homonym, synonym, antonym, metonym, aptonym, euonym, caconym and 13 more...
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the cryptkeeper
crypt- (and -crypt) words
crypt, cryptic, cryptorchid, cryptography, cryptozoology, cryptococcus, cryptogram, encrypt, decrypt, cryptonym, cryptogam, cryptosporidia and 7 more...
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say it again?
words that i want to hear just because they tickle my ears.
intrinsic, autonomy, alacrity, rickets, frippery, harrow, fasciculation, assuage, scathing, verity, pachyderm, hinny and 8 more...
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List of onyms
womonym, typonym, troponym, trionym, toponym, tetronym, teknonym, taxonym, tautonym, Synonym, sideronym, retronym and 78 more...
Tweets
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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