0 a name someone uses instead of their real name, especially on a written work:
1 a name that someone uses instead of his or her real name, esp. on a written work:
Samuel Clemens used the pseudonym Mark Twain.
Interviews were audiotaped for transcription and the use of pseudonyms protected participants' anonymity.
A pseudonym can be used consistently over a period of time to establish a personality and a reputation just like any other online personality.
For the purposes of the study and the subsequent reports all women were assigned pseudonyms and were assured anonymity.
An alternative is to prevent name changes either by using real names or through requiring users to acquire unique pseudonyms, namely once-in-a-lifetime pseudonyms.
The names mentioned below are all pseudonyms to protect the teachers' identities.
I have used pseudonyms to protect the names of subjects.
Users may register with a number of pseudonyms, essentially erasing the effects of prior feedback.
Once he established himself as a man of letters, he adopted other pseudonyms to conceal his incursion into doubtful fictional genres.