Alias
['eɪlɪəs] or ['elɪəs]
Definition
(noun.) a name that has been assumed temporarily.
(adv.) as known or named at another time or place; 'Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette'.
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Definition
(adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
(adv.) At another time.
(n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
(n.) Another name; an assumed name.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Otherwise.
n. Assumed name.
Typist: Nicholas
Definition
adv. otherwise.—n. an assumed name:—pl. A′liases.
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Examples
- You own the name and renounce the _alias_? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is always awkward doing business with an alias. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an _alias_. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He had been everywhere--under an alias. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I gave an involuntary half start at hearing the _alias_: I had forgotten my new name. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life). Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Typist: Veronica