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- ananym, pseudonym consisting of the real name written backwards eg Erewhon, novel by Samuel Butler
- anthroponym, personal name eg Brady
- aptronym, a name suitable to one's occupation eg Usain Bolt the runner, Sara Blizzard the weather forecaster
- cryptonym, secret name eg Operation London Bridge the code name for the funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II, who died September 8, 2022.
- homonym, one of two or more words spelled or pronounced alike but different in meaning eg bat (an animal/sporting equipment), park (recreational area/position a car) rock (a stone/a music genre)
- metonym, name used of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated eg Wall Street (the financial sector in the US) The Press (news media or journalists) Boots on the ground
- pseudonym, fictitious name eg Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), George Orwell (Eric Blair), Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
- retronym, term newly created and adopted to distinguish the original or older version, form, or example from other, more recent versions, forms, or examples eg steam train, acoustic guitar
- synonym, one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses eg large, huge, giant/pretty, attractive, alluring
- toponym, place name eg descriptive Rocky Mountains, Greenland; commemorative Victoria, St Petersburg; associative/origin New York, Jamestown, shift New England
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