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pen names

pen names is the plural of pen name.

Meaning of pen name

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
    Synonyms:
    nom de plume

Questions about pen names

What is pen names the plural of?
Pen names is the plural of pen name.

Words near pen names in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pen names (page history and authors); pen name (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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