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Definition: Anonymous |
AnonymousAdjective1. Having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift". 2. Not known or lacking marked individuality; "brown anonymous houses"; "anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anonymous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Anonymous \A*non"y*mous\, adjective. [Greek expression without name; 'an priv. +, Eol. for name. See Name.]. (references) |
| Antonym: onymous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Misnomer | Nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anonymous |
| English words defined with "anonymous": anonymity, Anonymousness, Authentics, Authorless ♦ Beowulf ♦ call, crank letter ♦ depersonalisation, depersonalization ♦ ethnic music ♦ folk, folk music ♦ namelessness ♦ phone call ♦ telephone call. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anonymous": 386BSD ♦ ad clerk, Anonyms and Pseudonyms, archie, archive site ♦ Bartole ♦ CLASSIFIED-AD CLERK I ♦ Degrees, Song of ♦ FTP by mail ♦ gzip ♦ Kvikkalkul ♦ Letter ♦ Oaklisp ♦ Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique, remailer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "anonymous": Anonymity. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | As long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) In real life I could be that anonymous nerd sitting across from you in chem lab, staring at you so hard (Pump Up the Volume; writing credit: Allan Moyle) Thank you, anonymous young man. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) What? I don't need anger management! I thought this was sexaholics anonymous! (Anger Management; writing credit: David Dorfman) Anonymous - like Homer, like the hills and clouds themselves (Pandaemonium; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) | |
Clever | Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sheep Stealers Anonymous (1963) Crooks Anonymous (1962) Birds Anonymous (1957) Murder Anonymous (1955) The Anonymous Letter (1911) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Families Anonymous Offers Free Help. : If Someone In Your Family Has A Drug Problem,... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anonymous Miscellaneous | Give me today, and take tomorrow. |
| Envy slays itself by its own arrows. | |
| On the day of victory no one is tired. | |
| Death is afraid of him because he has the heart of a lion. | |
| Whatever kind of word thou speakest the like shalt thou hear. | |
| I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?" | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Sprung from the most unfathomable depths of social darkness, she bore on her brow the mark of the anonymous and unknown |
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Health | Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings. (references) | |
These include detoxification, behavioral therapies, and regular attendance at meetings of support groups, such as Narcotics Anonymous. (references) | ||
The most prominent self-help groups are those affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Cocaine Anonymous (CA), all of which are based on the 12-step model, and Smart Recovery®. (references) | ||
Business | Presently, 25 hospitals have been tasked with offering free and anonymous screenings. (references) | |
Techint is extraordinarily well connected with the political and business elite of Argentina, and is very much at home in a culture characterized by the exchange of favors, anonymous actors, and closed meetings. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | Anonymous callers reportedly demanded approximately $9,000 (500,000 takas) from Khasru's family. (references) |
Haiti | On June 10 and 11, Benjamin received similar death threats from the same and other anonymous callers. (references) | |
Turkey | The manager had been tried on the basis of an anonymous message posted on his web site's "forum" page. (references) | |
Economic History | Peru | The Cusco school of largely anonymous Indian artists followed the Spanish baroque tradition with influence from the Italian, Flemish, and French schools. (references) |
Ghana | The existing judicial system was preserved, but alongside it the PNDC created the National Investigation Committee to root out corruption and other economic offenses, the anonymous Citizens' Vetting Committee to punish tax evasion, and the Public Tribunals to try various crimes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Paraguay | He was arrested based on an anonymous tip that described a robbery suspect as a 25-year-old man. (references) |
Minorities | Croatia | A series of harsh anonymous telephone calls to the Center ceased after police began an investigation. (references) |
Austria | The leader of the country's Jewish community reported that persons within the community who took a stand against racism and xenophobia were subjected to anonymous verbal and written threats. (references) | |
Political Rights | Ukraine | Presidential candidate Yevhen Marchuk reported that police ordered a meeting with voters evacuated in Luhansk in August 1999, citing an anonymous bomb threat. (references) |
Women | Georgia | There are anonymous telephone services that assist rape victims, but no shelters, specialized services, or other mechanisms to protect or assist them. (references) |
Slovenia | During 1999 and 2000, 224 persons were charged with offenses including domestic violence (82), "brutality" (25), "threat to safety" (27), and other unspecified offenses that resulted in injuries (51). SOS Phone, an NGO that provides anonymous emergency counseling and services to domestic violence victims, received approximately 6,300 calls during the year. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bulgaria | The Government has a provision for victims to provide an anonymous sworn deposition to be used in court, but an anonymous deposition must be corroborated to obtain a conviction. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Sally Jessy Raphael | They've got bikes now, and they've got clothes. We don't do this very often, but someone who wants to remain anonymous wanted to give you something very special. The key goes to a new home. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Anonymous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.40% of the time. "Anonymous" is used about 1,177 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.4% | 1,111 | 6,826 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.52% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,177 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "anonymous": Alcoholics Anonymous ♦ anonymous file transfer protocol ♦ anonymous FTP ♦ remain anonymous. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anonymous": anonymous-impossible. | |
Ending with "anonymous": pseudo-anonymous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "anonymous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anonymus (anonymous writer), anoniem (nameless, without, without a name). (various references) | |
Albanian | anonim (authorless), i paemër (nameless). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجهول الإسم (thingumabob, thingumajig), مجهول (byway, indefinite, indiscernible, nameless, obscure, unbeknown, uncharted, unheard of, unknown, unnamed), غير ذى شخصية مميزة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | анонимен (authorless, nameless, unfathered, unnamed), безименен (nameless, unnamed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 匿名 (Anonymity, Anonymously). (various references) | |
Czech | anonymní (nameless). (various references) | |
Danish | anonym (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Dutch | naamloos (nameless, without a name), anoniem (nameless, without a name), ongenoemd. (various references) | |
Esperanto | anonima, sennoma (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Farsi | لاادری , تخلصی , دارای نام مستعار, بی نام (Nameless, Untitled). (various references) | |
Finnish | anonyymi julkaisu, nimetön (nameless). (various references) | |
French | anonyme (anon., anonym). (various references) | |
Frisian | anonym (nameless, without a name), nammeleas (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
German | anonym (anonymously, nameless, without a name), namenlos (nameless, namelessly, unnamed, unspeakable, unutterable), ungenannt (undisclosed, undubbed, unnamed, unnamedly). (various references) | |
Greek | ανώνυμος (nameless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלמו י (anon., nameless, unknown), א ו ימי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | névtelen (anon, anonym, authorless, faceless, little known, nameless, unnamed, without a name). (various references) | |
Indonesian | anonim, tanpa nama. (various references) | |
Italian | anonimo (anonym, authorless, nameless). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 読み人知らず (author unknown), 無名 (anonymity, nameless, unsigned), 作者未詳 (author unknown), 作者不知 , アネロイド気圧計 (about, aneroid barometer, anode, anonym, anorak, anorexia), 不明 (ambiguous, ignorant, indistinct, lack of wisdom, obscure, uncertain, unidentified, unknown). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくしゃしらず, さくしゃみしょう (author unknown), ふめい (ambiguous, ignorant, indistinct, lack of wisdom, obscure, uncertain, unidentified, unknown), むめい (anonymity, nameless, unsigned, without a signature), アノニマス , よみびとしらず (author unknown, waka-composer unknown). (various references) | |
Korean | 익명 (Anonymity, Pseudonym). (various references) | |
Manx | neuennymagh (nameless), neuenmyssit (undefined), gyn ennym (nameless). (various references) | |
Papiamen | anónimo (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anonymousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anônimo (anonym, anonymous writer, authorless, nameless, unnamed). (various references) | |
Romanian | anonim (anonym, authorless, john doe, limited, nameless, unnamed). (various references) | |
Russian | безымянный (innominate, nameless, unnamed, without a name), анонимный (anon, authorless). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anoniman. (various references) | |
Spanish | anónimo (anonymity, authorless, name unknown, nameless, unattributed, without a name). (various references) | |
Sranan | tyibrifasi (nameless, without a name), sondronen (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Swedish | anonym (anonym, authorless, nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Thai | นิรนาม, ซึ่งไม่มีลักษ"ะเฉพาะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | anonim (anonym, incorporate, incorporated, joint stock), anoním (nameless, without a name), yaratıcısı bilinmeyen, isimsiz (anonym, nameless, unnamed), imzasız (anonym, incognito, unsigned), ísímsíz (nameless, without a name). (various references) | |
Turkmen | anonom. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | анонімний (authorless). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giấu tên; vô danh; nặc danh. (various references) | |
Welsh | anhysbys (unknown, unversed), dienw (nameless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anonymous": anonymously, anonymousness, anonymousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Anonymous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ananimous, ananymous, annomyous, annonimous, annonymous, annoymous, annymous, anolymous, anomymous, anonamous, anonaymous, anoneymous, anonimous, anonmous, anonmyous, anonnymous, anonomous, anonoymous, anonymos, anonymouse, anonymuos, anonymus, anonyous, anoymous, anynomous, aponymous, atonymous, endonymous, enonymous, nonymous, unonymous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anonymous" (pronounced unÄ"numus) |
| 8 | u n Ä" n u m u s | synonymous. |
| 6 | -Ä" n u m u s | autonomous. |
| 5 | -n u m u s | animus, magnanimous, unanimous, venomous. |
| 4 | -u m u s | blasphemous, hippopotamus, infamous, monogamous, polygamous, thalamus. |
| 3 | -m u s | dermis, enormous, epidermis, famous, grimace, humus, ignoramus, isthmus, litmus, mandamus, posthumous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, ramus, Shamas, shamus, thermos. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-n-o-o-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: anonyms. | |
-3 letters: annoys, anonym, unmans, yamuns. | |
-4 letters: annoy, anomy, manos, manus, mason, mayos, moans, monas, monos, moons, moony, mousy, muons, mynas, nomas, nomos, nonas, noons, nouns, sonny, sunna, sunny, unman, unsay, yamun, yuans. | |
-5 letters: amus, anon, anus, mano, mans, many, maun, mayo, mays, moan, moas, mono, mons, mony, moon, moos, muns, muon, myna, nans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-n-o-o-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: antonymous. | |
+2 letters: anonymously. | |
+4 letters: anonymousness, mountainously. | |
+5 letters: inharmoniously. | |
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