pen name

noun

: an author's pseudonym

Examples of pen name in a Sentence

Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”
Recent Examples on the Web The newfound phenomenon was one in which certain particle features take a different path from their particle—much like the smile of the Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll—a pen name of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—and published in 1865. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024 In August 2022, Rowling began promoting her new novel, The Ink Black Heart, published under her pen name Robert Galbraith. Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024 And Kendall’s Grace is prolific, with 171 novels listed on Amazon’s Goodreads site for that pen name alone. Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024 Mabry adapted the film with Cee Marcellus (a pen name for The Woman King’s Gina Prince-Bythewood) from the novel of the same name by Edward Kelsey Moore. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for pen name 

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1864, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pen name was circa 1864

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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20name. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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pen name

noun
: a false name used by an author

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