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pen name also pen·name (pnnm)
n.
A pseudonym used by a writer. Also called nom de plume.

pen name
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(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an author's pseudonym Also called nom de plume
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Noun1.pen name - an author's pseudonym
anonym, nom de guerre, pseudonym - a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role

pen name
noun pseudonym, nom de plume, allonym Eric Blair, better known by his pen name of George Orwell
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pen name npseudonimo


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Scher University of Illinois Press 140 pages, $35 IF HENRI GAUTHIER-VILLARS (1859-1931), a prolific theater critic and jack of all literary trades who published much of his work under the penname Willy, is remembered at all today, especially in the U.
Anyone who lives in any of today's English-speaking countries, with their new censorship (aka 'political correctness') and their all-powerful states, should be indebted to the writings of George Orwell, the penname of Eric Arthur Blair.
 
 
 
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