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anonymous
/əˈnɑnəməs/
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The second syllable carries the strongest beat.
Use four syllables and a light opening vowel. Keep the first and final two vowels less prominent than the vowel after the first n, and finish with an unvoiced s.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The note came from an anonymous reader.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does anonymous mean?
adjective
- Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .
- Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.
- Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
More meanings (4)
adjective
- (figuratively) Lacking individuality.
proper noun
- A decentralized hacktivist group that conducts cyberattacks opposing primarily Internet censorship and government corruption.
- A member of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.
- The members of an anonymous imageboard website, especially of 4chan.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈnɑnəməs/
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An "anonymous work" is a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author.
In every anonymous assembly whatever, though it be composed exclusively of highly educated persons, discussion always assumes the same shape.
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His lordship was notoriously a furious political partisan, the author of several anonymous pamphlets characterised by unusual violence and dogmatism.
She was publicly vilified and privately abused, pursued with obscene, anonymous, and insulting letters until the day of her death.
So great was Bede's authority, that nearly all the anonymous speculations of the next following centuries upon these subjects were eventually ascribed to him.