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pen name

pen name noun: a fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym.

Noun

pen name (plural pen names)

  1. A fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym.
    • Within a week of King's acknowledging the Bachman pen name, several sources —publishers, book dealers, readers, and fans—had mentioned a number of possible other pseudonyms; obviously, if King admitted to two pen names, John Swithen and Richard Bachmann, there might be others.1998, Bill Munster, Discovering Dean Koontz, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 64
    • In their time, it was fashionable to sign letters using a pen name. These pen names were borrowed from characters in classical literature.2002, Jacqueline Ching, Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary Woman, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 19
    Synonyms:
    nom de plume

pen name meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

pen name in Hindi

writer's pseudonym
छद्मनाम chadmanām

pen name in Tamil

புனைப்பெயர், புனைபெயர், புனைவுப்பெயர்

pen name in Urdu

تخلص

pen name in Malayalam

writer's pseudonym
തൂലികാനാമം tūlikānāmaṁ
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pen name in Kannada
ಬರೆಹೆಸರು, ಕಾವ್ಯನಾಮ, ಕಲ್ಪಿತನಾಮ, ಉಪನಾಮ
pen name in Tagalog
sagisag-panulat
pen name in Indonesian
nama samaran, pseudonim, nom de plume
pen name in Thai
นามปากกา naam-bpàak-gaa
pen name in Vietnamese
biệt hiệu, bút danh, tên chữ, tên tự

Synonyms of pen name

Forms of pen name

pluralpen names
alternative formpen-name
alternative formpenname

Questions about pen name

What does pen name mean?
Pen name means a fictitious name used by an author in place of their actual name; a writer's pseudonym.
What is pen name in Hindi?
Pen name in Hindi is छद्मनाम (chadmanām). See Pen name meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pen name?
Pen name is a noun.
What is the plural of pen name?
The plural of pen name is pen names.

Words near pen name in the dictionary

  1. pen guns
  2. pen in
  3. pen licence
  4. pen licences
  5. Pen Mill
  6. pen name
  7. pen names
  8. pen painting
  9. pen paintings
  10. pen pal
  11. pen palled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pen name (page history and authors); pen name (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pen name (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pen name (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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