Anonymous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anonymous \A*non"y*mous\, a. [Gr. ? without name; 'an priv. + ?,
     Eol. for ? name. See {Name}.]
     Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed
     authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous
     pamphlet or letter.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anonymous
       adj 1: having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous
              authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift"
              [syn: {anon.}] [ant: {onymous}]
       2: not known or lacking marked individuality; "brown anonymous
          houses"; "anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "anonymous":
     closet, cryptonymic, cryptonymous, incognito, inmost, innermost,
     innominate, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, nameless,
     personal, private, privy, retired, secluded, sequestered,
     unacknowledged, undefined, undesignated, unidentified, unknown,
     unnamed, unrecognized, unspecified, withdrawn, without a name
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANONYMOUS. Without name. This word is applied to such.books, letters or
  papers, which are published without the author's name. No man is bound to
  publish his name in connexion with a book or paper he has published; but if
  the publication is libellous, he is equally responsible as if his name were
  published.