pen name

noun

1. a pseudonym used by an author; nom de plume.

pen name

noun

1. an author's pseudonym Also callednom de plume

Word History and Origins

Origin of pen name¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Knox wanted to write under a pen name at first, which the paper allowed her to do.

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Nick Willard is the pen name of a military officer serving in Afghanistan.

From The Daily Beast

Nick Willard is the pen name of a military officer currently serving in Afghanistan.

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“Joke of the day,” tweeted one well-known blogger, who writes under the pen name The Big Pharaoh.

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You wrote some poetry under a pen name [Jacob Gershon], right?

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Using his pen name, "Moina," he specialized in war lyrics which were soon memorized by Southerners in general.

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Hundreds of puns had been made on his pen-name, but this was probably his first and only attempt, and it still remains the best.

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Certainly Miss Graves was justified in objecting to the use of her new pen name on work already published under her own name.

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Fernn Caballero lived in the street that bears her pen-name, and a tablet will be found upon the house which she occupied.

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Lytton is probably better known as a poet—under the pen-name of “Owen Meredith”—than as a statesman.

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