alias

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a name that has been assumed temporarily
  2. adverb as known or named at another time or place

Etymology

From Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). See else and alien.

In classic literature

Synonyms

assumed name, false name

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