This week’s theme
Counterpart words

This week’s words
materteral
attrite
autonym
exoteric
spear side

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(O-tuh-nim)

MEANING:

noun:
1. A person’s own name, as distinguished from a pseudonym.
2. A work published under the real name of the author.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek auto- (self) + -onym (name). Earliest documented use: 1854.

USAGE:

“If Macmillans refused then some other house should be tried. Why not send to F. Unwin -- it might do for the pseudonym series -- or autonym if you do not like the idea of a nom de guerre.”
Joseph Conrad; The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad; Cambridge University Press; 2015.

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