False Name

  

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False Name

Definition: False Name

False Name

Noun

1. A name that has been assumed temporarily.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: False Name

Synonyms: alias (n), assumed name (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: False Name

English words defined with "false name": Black-jackCalumniationFalse personationHollow warePseudepigraphous, Purser's nameZa. (references)
Specialty definitions using "false name": BilkerDecaloguefalse amethystHorn clausemost selective confidence intervalsNehelamiteRolandseck Tower. (references)
Etymologies containing "false name": Pseudonymous. (references)

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Use in Literature: False Name

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This man has glided into your confidence, and almost into your family, under a false name.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: False Name

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Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

The boy reportedly was kidnaped from his family by a Pakistani woman in 1998 and brought to Abu Dhabi through Iran under a false name. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: False Name

Language Translations for "false name"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

valenimi (assumed name). (various references)

   

French

  

supposition de nom (giving a false name). (various references)

   

German

  

falsche Namensangabe (giving a false name), Angabe eines falschen Namens (giving a false name). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álnevet visel (to go by a false name), álnéven szerepel (to go by a false name). (various references)

   

Italian

  

supposizione di stato (giving a false name), assunzione di nome falso (giving a false name). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

偽称 (assuming a false name), 他人の名'騙って (under a false name). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎしょう (assuming a false name, false evidence, false testimony, perjury, playful laughter), たに"のな'かたって (under a false name). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alsefay amenay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

substituição de um nome por outro falso (giving a false name). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чужое имя (false identity). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fingerat namn (assumed name). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: False Name

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-l-m-n-s"

-1 letter: enflames.

-2 letters: enamels, enflame, females, flamens.

-3 letters: aflame, aneles, enamel, enemas, faenas, female, flamen, flames, flanes, fleams, flense, lemans, measle, mensae, mensal, seaman, seamen.

-4 letters: alane, alans, alefs, alfas, almas, almes, amens, anele, anlas, ansae, easel, elans, enema, faena, false, fames, fanes, fease, feels, femes, flame, flams, flans, fleam, fleas, flees, lamas, lames, lanes, leafs, leans, lease, leman, lenes, lense, males, manas, manes, manse, meals, means, mensa, mense, mesne, names, nasal, neems, nemas, semen.

-5 letters: aals, alae, alan, alas, alee, alef, ales, alfa, alma, alme, alms, amas, amen, anal, anas, anes, ansa, asea, ease, eels, elan, elms, else, emes, emfs, fame, fane, fans, feal, feel, fees, feme, fems, fens, flam, flan, flea, flee, lama, lame, lams, lane, lase, leaf, lean, leas, lees, lens, maes, male, mana, mane, mans, meal, mean, mels, mesa, name, neem, nema, safe, sale, same, sane, seal, seam, seel, seem, seen, self, seme, sene, slam.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-f-l-m-n-s"
 

+2 letters: malfeasance.

 

+3 letters: malfeasances.

 

+5 letters: familiarnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: False Name


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 6C 73 65      4E 61 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001110 01100001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#108 &#115 &#101 &#32 &#78 &#97 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 006C 0073 0065      004E 0061 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067788571248677971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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