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alias
/ˈeɪ.li.əs/
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What does alias mean?
adverb
- Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
- Used to connect the different names of a person who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful
noun
- Another name; especially, an assumed name.
More meanings (6)
noun
- A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
- An alternate name assigned to something, e.g. a database column to avoid ambiguity in a query.
- A spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
verb
- To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
- To make or become indistinguishable.
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IPA pronunciation
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This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.
The B.'s kept a boarding-house and took Inez as a waitress, knowing her first by still another alias.
More book examples (3)
Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as any in Rome.
“Etienne Cornillant, alias Pontou, I command you in the name of God and of justice, to declare what you know.”
He is Shiva, under a new alias, and he abides in the bottom of that cistern, in the form of a stone lingam.