FALSE NAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false name mean? 

• FALSE NAME (noun)
  The noun FALSE NAME has 1 sense:

1. a name that has been assumed temporarily

  Familiarity information: FALSE NAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE NAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A name that has been assumed temporarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

alias; assumed name; false name

Hypernyms ("false name" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

 Context examples 

Don’t fall for spoofing scams—people who call your cell phone number and hide behind a false name that comes up on your screen.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By some means, which are not yet clear, he succeeded in winning, under a false name, this official position in the office, which he utilised in order to obtain moulding of various locks, and a thorough knowledge of the position of the strong room and the safes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)