Definition of Nom de plume

1. Noun. An author's pseudonym.

Exact synonyms: Pen Name
Generic synonyms: Anonym, Nom De Guerre, Pseudonym

Definition of Nom de plume

1. Noun. A pen name or pseudonym ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nom De Plume

nolleity
nollies
nolls
nolo
nolo contendere
nolo episcopari
nolos
nolt
nom
nom-
nom-de-plume
nom.
nom de Web
nom de guerre
nom de plume
nom nom nom
nom race
noma
nomad
nomade
nomades
nomadian
nomadians
nomadic
nomadically
nomadicity
nomadies
nomadise
nomadised

Literary usage of Nom de plume

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... FERNÁN (nom de plume of CECILIA BOHL VON FABER), a noted Spanish novelist, b.at Merges, a small town in Switzerland, 25 December, 1796; d. at Seville, ..."

2. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction by William Adolphus Wheeler (1872)
"... Fr. pron. zâ'vè^â')- A nom de plume of Joseph Xavier Boniface (b. 1797), a popular French writer. ..."

3. The Golden Poppy by Emory Evans Smith (1902)
"... was published many years ago in a Souvenir oI Santa Barbara under the given nom de plume, and I have been unable to trace the identity oi the writer. ..."

4. Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United by Josiah Hooker Bissell (1883)
"An author or writer cannot acquire any better or higher right in a nom de plume, or assumed name, than he has in his Christian or baptismal name, ..."

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