Definitions for alias

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alias a·li·as

Spelling: [ey-lee-uh s]

IPA: /ˈeɪ li əs/

Alias is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in alias (aails).

Definitions for alias

noun

1. a false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name:

adverb

1. at another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise. “Simpson alias Smith” means that Simpson in other circumstances has called himself Smith.
2. otherwise called; alias.

Origin of alias

1525-35; Latin aliās (adv.): at another time, otherwise; cf. else

Examples for alias

Miller, who also uses the alias Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., has an extensive résumé of hate.

There are some advantages in the name Smith, I really needed no alias.

Thus Griffith, alias Thomas, became her sunbeam, and Paul her cloud.

Molina has since admitted to going by the alias Tito during the civil war but denied his troops were involved in any atrocities.

He orders a Smith Wesson .38 snub-​nosed revolver through the mail, using the same alias.

There's a mystery, but James Price, alias Pickles, 'ull unravel it.

He knew well that Josef Blot, alias Weirmarsh, was not a man to be trifled with.

Part of the alias and the disguise is masking racism with the mechanisms of large, diverse institutions.

Pete was disgusted with his brother Homer, alias Bill Moore.

He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.