| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·non·y·mous |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -n n -ms |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author. 2. Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call. 3. Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: “a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace” (Alan Paton). | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Late Latin an nymus, from Greek annumos, nameless : an-, without; see a–1 + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nnumnos, nameless); see n -men- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | a·nony·mous·ly —ADVERB
a·nony·mous·ness —NOUN
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