Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word or name that is used secretly to refer to another; a code name or code word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A private, secret, or hidden name; a name which one bears in some society or brotherhood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
secret name , acode name .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[11] A cryptonym is a combination of a two-letter digraph, which are either free-standing (e.g.,
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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[11] A cryptonym is a combination of a two-letter digraph, which are either free-standing (e.g.,
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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[11] A cryptonym is a combination of a two-letter digraph, which are either free-standing (e.g.,
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Alex was the cryptonym for Colonel Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky of the GRU, a man who had provided the British and American intelligence services with information beyond price.
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The agent's cryptonym was Night Stock, and his real name was Marcel Tiraque.
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The Hypermarket material was straightforward. just as Oleg Penkovsky had slandered the Railton name, by directly suggesting that his cover was blown by an agent of influence working under the cryptonym Dionysus, so Blunt had, in a couple of sentences during one of the recent interrogation sessions, provided back-up mentions.
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By the end of 1935 he was fully operational, with the cryptonym Dionysus.
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It was not the mark of the infamous “Mendez”, but some newcomer with the lame cryptonym of “Radar”.
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Once, sixteen tempo engineers, summarily banished to Asia Minor, decided to build a time main to escape, under the guise of constructing some sort of tower or dome; the name given to it was the cryptonym-password of their plot Banished Asian Builder's Escape League.
Archive 2001-04-01 Torill 2001
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Once, sixteen tempo engineers, summarily banished to Asia Minor, decided to build a time main to escape, under the guise of constructing some sort of tower or dome; the name given to it was the cryptonym-password of their plot Banished Asian Builder's Escape League.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
trivet commented on the word cryptonym
Code name.
March 3, 2007
oroboros commented on the word cryptonym
Also, a code word, once removed, i.e., a code word that secretly refers to another code word.
March 5, 2007
qms commented on the word cryptonym
When life becomes pallid and grim
Enhance it by wit and by whim.
Give a glamorous sheen
To your daily routine
By adopting a deep cryptonym.
June 10, 2015