noun
definition
A fictitious name, as those used by writers and movie stars.
example
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
Examples of pseudonyms in a Sentence
Often a fugitive, M N Roy was one of the many pseudonyms he adopted to avoid arrest.
A directory of author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, and pen names is also provided.
Collections have appeared, however, by Waclaw Zaleski, who writes under the pseudonyms of Waclaw z Oleska, Wojcicki, Roger, Zegota Pauli, and especially Oskar Kolberg.
In the department of belles-lettres he wrote a good deal under such pseudonyms as Christian Deutsch, Gottfried Flammberg and Sigmund Sturm.
As the 4x4's various pseudonyms - Chelsea Tractor, Montessori Wagon - suggest, it's not their ability to go off road.
He has written almost nothing else since and has become identified with " John Christopher ", his other pseudonyms long since discarded.
Pseudonyms would be necessary for all Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, if their work is measured for potential subversion.
For many weddings, they will give pseudonyms to their vendors instead of telling them who is really getting married.
In fact, most of the remixes on the album "Super Black Market Clash" were done by Simonon under various pseudonyms.
This stems from the fact that the Internet is a very impersonal tool and that people often participate in chat room and forum discussions using pseudonyms and chat room abbreviations.
Several of the works of "Carmen Sylva" were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honour, who was born at Greifswald in 1857, and married Dr Kremnitz of Bucharest; these were published between 1881 and 1888, in some cases under the pseudonyms Dito et Idem, and includes the novel Aus zwei Welten (Leipzig, 1884), Anna Boleyn (Bonn, 1886), a tragedy, In der Irre (Bonn, 1888), a collection of short stories, &c. Edleen Vaughan, or Paths of Peril, a novel (London, 1894), and Sweet Hours, poems (London, 1904), were written in English.