anonym (AN-uh-nim) noun

   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).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=anonym

  "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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