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anonymous, a.|əˈnɒnɪməs|
[f. Gr. ἀνώνυµος (whence also in L. anōnymos, anōnymus), f. ἀν priv. + ὄνοµα, in æolic ὄνυµα, name; + -ous. Often used in Gr. form early in 17th c.]
1. Nameless, having no name; of unknown name.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 274 Anonymos, finding no name to be called by, got therupon the name Anonymos. A Plant this is brought out of Scythia to vs. 1631Whimzies 22 Hee is anonymos, and that wil secure him. 1675Ogilby Brit. 24 The confluence of an Anonimous Rill with the Tame. 1712Steele Spect. No. 546 ⁋4 Amongst the crowd of other anonymous correspondents. 1794Paley Evidences ii. vi. §41 These altars..were called anonymous, because there was not the name of any particular deity inscribed upon them. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxxiii. 560 Clothed in the coat of darkness of an anonymous writer.
b. Hence subst. A person whose name is not given, or is unknown.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 49 Killico, Hob and a third anonymos, are booked downe for 3 graund Commaunders. 1654Whitlock Mann. Eng. 208 It were..wisdome it selfe, to read all Authors as Anonymo's, looking on the Sence, not Names of Books. 1832Miss Porter Hungarian Bro. 15 To become certain that my anonymous is a woman.
2. transf. Bearing no author's name; of unknown or unavowed authorship.
1676Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 111 An anonymous book, called Naked Truth. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 576 Observations from an anonymous pamphlet. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) II. xv. 65 The anonymous attacks upon Newton. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §17. 62 Many of the books which they [the Jewish Scriptures] contain are anonymous.
3. Unacknowledged, illegitimate. rare.
1881Daily News 1 Feb. 5/8 The anonymous daughter of a King, who became enamoured of her mother while on a visit to Paris.
▸ Indistinguishable from others of its kind; unexceptional; bland, generic, nondescript.
1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 330 A maroon velvet cape with a border of mangy and anonymous fur. 1975L. Clarkson Death, Dis. & Famine in Pre-Industrial Eng. i. 4 An anonymous and uneventful life. 1991N.Y. Times 13 Nov. c12/2 Gone are the days when everyone but an elite few drank anonymous plonk except at weddings. 2004T. C. Boyle Inner Circle 417 Some anonymous diner in a town I've already forgotten.
▸ Of a person: generally unknown, unrecognized, or uncelebrated.
1932W. Faulkner Light in August viii. 187 The odorreek of all anonymous men. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Apr. 2 Foreign Ministers, advisers, and anonymous brain trusters. 1976Maclean's 3 May 67/1 No proficient Canadian novelist is as anonymous as John Buell, whose last novel..received..barely a mention here. 2000C. Bohjalian Trans-sister Radio (2001) iii. 32 Most transgendered people are simply anonymous members of their communities.
▸ Of a place, institution, etc.: lacking a sense of community; impersonal.
1943Amer. Sociol. Rev. 8 643 The type and individuality of the community, whether it be a cluster of isolated homesteads,..or an anonymous town or city. 1951R. Hoggart Auden v. 137 Isolation in a vast anonymous Metroland such as New York. 1985C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. (ed. 2) Introd. 16 The popular Press attacked the whole idea of housing 1,600 people in a vast, anonymous, inhuman beehive. 2005N.Y. Mag. 7 Feb. 34/1 The breaking up of vast, anonymous, 7,000-student educational gristmills into smaller, more intimate schools. |