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• n  a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role

• Kim (a pseudonym she used to protect her family in North Korea) is about to meet, for the first time, the men responsible for saving her life.
• Air Force officer Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) was flown to Iraq in 2006 as part of a small group of military interrogators (or 'gators, as they call themselves) trained to .
• When he was 29, he went to Paris, where he soon after adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Le Corbusier, as his pseudonym.

• anonym
• nom de guerre

News & Articles

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• Harsher sentence sought for Tunisian feminist
  TUNIS, Tunisia — A lawyer says a prosecutor has appealed a sentence that a court gave to a Tunisian feminist for possessing pepper spray as not harsh enough. Amina Sboui is a member of the Ukrainian feminist group Femen. Known by her pseudonym Amina Tyler, she shocked Tunisia by protesting the treatment of women by posting topless photos of herself on Internet.
  June 10, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Laura Albert in Forbes
  This goes beyond me,Albert said. "Say an artist wants to use a pseudonym for political reasons, for performance art. This is a new, dangerous brave new world we are in."
• Stephen Fry in Independent
  Fry told Ross: "I'm very happy to help you get off the naughty step.Since his suspension, Ross has tried to build bridges with his fans by chatting to them on social networking websites. Writing under the pseudonym Wossy", he has accumulated...
• Jimmy Wales in New Yorker
  He did not answer a message we sent to him; Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikia and of Wikipedia, said of Essjay's invented persona, "I regard it as a pseudonym and I don't really have a problem with it."