Word Meanings - ANONYMOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

Related words: (words related to ANONYMOUS)

• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• NAMELESS
  1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
• PAMPHLETEER
  A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• PAMPHLET
  OF. palme the palm of the hand, F. paume + OF. fueillet a leaf, dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f., fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus meaning, a leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French, fr. L. Pamphila, a female historian of the
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• BENEFACTOR
  One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• ANONYMOUS
  Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• AUTHORSHIP
  1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• ANONYMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge.
• LETTERING
  1. The act or business of making, or marking with, letters, as by cutting or painting. 2. The letters made; as, the lettering of a sign.
• LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE
• LETTERED
  1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.
• ANONYMOUSLY
  In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• NIGHT LETTER; NIGHT LETTERGRAM
  See ABOVE