1. A false or assumed name.2. An anonymous person or book.
[From French anonyme, from Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos, from an- (not) + -onyma (name).]
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"And at the head of those stairs he entered a zone of belonging-ness scarcely imaginable by the hustling anonyms in the mean streets outside." Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.; Death of the Club Man; Seattle Times; Jul 17, 1988.
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