trivial name

noun

Definition of trivial namenext
as in pen name

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  1. pen name
  2. trade name
  3. brand name
  4. nom de plume
  5. vernacular
  6. binomial
  7. misnomer
  8. label
Noun
  • The prize's namesake, author Mark Twain, divined his pen name from a navigation term used by steamboat captains on a river.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The police show Caroline Darian, the middle child and only daughter (who goes by a pen name) two photos recovered from her father’s electronics that show her sleeping in a strange position, with the duvet pulled back and the lights on.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of pen name
Noun
  • The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Its residential smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, under the trade names Universal and USI Electric, are manufactured in and imported from China.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of trade name
Noun
  • Rather than hindering growth, the Fabletics brand name propelled the men’s line forward.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Finally, the Dell Premium name replaces the storied XPS moniker, perhaps Dell’s strongest brand name next to Latitude.
    Joe Osborne, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of brand name
Noun
  • The premise was a fiction—the column wasn’t written by the editor but by the novelist Donald G. Mitchell, who wrote mostly under the nom de plume Ik Marvel.
    Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In this sparkling novel, Cate Kay is just that: the nom de plume of a bestselling author who doesn't really exist, after a tragedy in her youth sent her on the run under a succession of different identities.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of nom de plume
Noun
  • In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok—the list goes on—began developing their own vernacular and forming a network within Asia.
    James Gui, Pitchfork, 5 Oct. 2024
Definition of vernacular
Noun
  • She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature.
    Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
Definition of binomial
Noun
  • Thought to have been brought to North America by European settlers, the name may be a bit of a misnomer.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Suggesting the 1995-96 Premier League campaign belonged to Tony Yeboah (and not Alan Shearer — sorry, Alan) might be a misnomer but, for a couple of glorious months as late summer turned towards autumn in 1995, Yeboah really did feel to be the only show in town.
    The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of misnomer
Noun
  • Jobs took advantage of the turmoil to create a pioneering collaboration, signing deals with five major record labels that allowed Apple to sell their music on iTunes.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
  • At the Academy Museum Gala, Sebastian Stan and Jon M. Chu sported the label's suits, and Gwyneth Paltrow, Emma Stone, and Daisy Ridley also count themselves as fans of Loro Piano tailoring.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of label
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