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anonym (AN-uh-nim) noun

1. A false or assumed name.

2. An anonymous person or book.

[From French anonyme, from Latin anonymus, from Greek anonymos, from an- (not) + -onyma (name).]

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"And at the head of those stairs he entered a zone of belonging-ness scarcely imaginable by the hustling anonyms in the mean streets outside."
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.; Death of the Club Man; Seattle Times; Jul 17, 1988.

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Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (1932- )

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