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cryptonyms

cryptonyms is the plural of cryptonym.

Meaning of cryptonym

Noun

cryptonym (plural cryptonyms)

  1. A secret name, a code name.
    • The spy was known only by his cryptonym, 'Shadow'.

Questions about cryptonyms

What is cryptonyms the plural of?
Cryptonyms is the plural of cryptonym.

Words near cryptonyms in the dictionary

  1. cryptons
  2. cryptonym
  3. cryptonymic
  4. cryptonymies
  5. cryptonymous
  6. cryptonyms
  7. cryptonymy
  8. cryptopatch
  9. cryptopatches
  10. cryptoperthite
  11. cryptoperthites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptonyms (page history and authors); cryptonym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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