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telonyms

telonyms is the plural of telonym.

Meaning of telonym

Noun

telonym (plural telonyms)

  1. (rare) A term formed from the terminal letter or letters of several words.
    1. (rare) A pseudonym formed in this way from an author's first name or full name.
      • John Smith adopted the telonym N. H. for his novel.

Questions about telonyms

What is telonyms the plural of?
Telonyms is the plural of telonym.

Words near telonyms in the dictionary

  1. telonemid
  2. telonemids
  3. telonism
  4. telonisms
  5. telonym
  6. telonyms
  7. Teloogoo
  8. Teloogoos
  9. telop
  10. Telopea
  11. Telopea Downs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telonyms (page history and authors); telonym (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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