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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An assumed name.
  • noun Computers An alternate name or address, especially an e-mail address that forwards incoming e-mail to another address.
  • noun Electronics A false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency.
  • adverb Also known as; otherwise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An assumed name; another name.
  • noun [From words in the writ, Sicut alias præcipimus, as we at another time command.] In law, a second writ or execution issued when the first has failed to serve its purpose. Also used adjectively: as, an alias execution.
  • At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful.
  • adverb At another time.
  • noun A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
  • noun Another name; an assumed name.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
  • adverb law 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; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
  • noun Another name; an assumed name.
  • noun law A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
  • noun online gaming An abbreviation that replaces a string of in-game commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
  • noun signal processing An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
  • verb computing To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
  • verb signal processing to become indistinguishable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb as known or named at another time or place
  • noun a name that has been assumed temporarily

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin aliās, otherwise, at another time, from feminine accusative pl. of alius, other; see al- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin alias ("at another time; in post-Augustan period, at another time or place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise"), feminine accusative plural of alius ("other"). See else and alien.

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synonyms (25)

Words with the same meaning

  1. AKA
  2. Jane Doe
  3. John Doe
  4. Richard Roe
  5. anonym
  6. assumed name
  7. contrarily
  8. else
  9. elsewise
  10. false name
  11. fictitious name
  12. in other respects
  13. in other ways
  14. name
  15. nom de guerre
  16. nom de plume
  17. nom de theatre
  18. or else
  19. other than
  20. otherwise
  21. pen name
  22. professional name
  23. pseudonym
  24. stage name
  25. than

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. name

same context (2)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. FKA
  2. PKA

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. nom de plume

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