anonymous

The definition of anonymous is of unknown name or origin.

(adjective)

An author who does not put his name on his books is an example of someone who is anonymous.

See anonymous in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

with no name known or acknowledged
given, written, etc. by a person whose name is withheld or unknown
not easily distinguished from others or from one another because of a lack of individual features or character

Origin: LL anonymus < Gr anōnymos < an-, without + onyma, name

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See anonymous in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter; an anonymous phone call.
Having no distinctive character or recognition factor: “a very great, almost anonymous center of people who just want peace” (Alan Paton).

Origin:

Origin: From Late Latin anōnymus

Origin: , from Greek anōnumos, nameless

Origin: : an-, without; see a-¹

Origin: + onuma, name (influenced by earlier nōnumnos, nameless); see nō̆-men- in Indo-European roots

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