Word.ws English Dictionary

noms de guerre

noms de guerre is the plural of nom de guerre.

Meaning of nom de guerre

Noun

nom de guerre (plural noms de guerre)

  1. A pseudonym, particularly one adopted by soldiers, revolutionaries, or resistance fighter.
    • One of the participants in the contest – a publicity bonanza for a certain well-known hot doggery – was William Perry, the football player who scored a touchdown in the 1986 Super Bowl and was known by the nom de guerre “The Refrigerator.”2003 July 5, Michael Brick, “From Soup to Stickball, the 4th With a Twist”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
    Synonyms:
    pseudonym

Questions about noms de guerre

What is noms de guerre the plural of?
Noms de guerre is the plural of nom de guerre.

Words near noms de guerre in the dictionary

  1. nompC
  2. noms
  3. noms d'artiste
  4. noms de clavier
  5. noms de course
  6. noms de guerre
  7. noms de plume
  8. noms de voyage
  9. noms de web
  10. noms-de-guerre
  11. noms-de-plume

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noms de guerre (page history and authors); nom de guerre (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “noms de guerre.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/noms_de_guerre. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.