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anonymous

adj
/əˈnɒn.ə.məs/UK/əˈnɑ.nə.məs/CA/əˈnɔn.ə.məs/

Etymology

Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (ănṓnŭmos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.

  1. derived from ᾰ̓νώνῠμος — “without name”
  2. derived from anonymus

Definitions

  1. Lacking a name

    Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .

  2. Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.

    • an anonymous pamphlet
    • an anonymous subscription
    • anonymous author or painter

  3. Of unknown name

    Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

    • an anonymous author
    • an anonymous benefactor
    • No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Lacking individuality.

      • an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate

    2. A decentralized hacktivist group that conducts cyberattacks opposing primarily Internet…

      A decentralized hacktivist group that conducts cyberattacks opposing primarily Internet censorship and government corruption.

    3. A member of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.

    4. The members of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.

The neighborhood

Derived

anon, anonym, anonymous class, anonymouse, anonymously, anonymousness, anonymous pipe, anonymous proxy, anonymous sculpture, nonanonymous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for anonymous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA