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Learned borrowing from Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”). Doublet of else and allo-. See also alien and alter.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.li.əs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪliəs

alias (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called; also known as; formerly known as.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 168:

     Hitherto the commanding influence of Sir Robert Evelyn's character had sunk his own into insignificance—now he had no "rival near the throne," alias the bench of county magistrates.

   • 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:

     When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?

2. (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

   Smith, alias Simpson.

• AKA

• FKA, PKA

alias (plural aliases)

1. Another name; especially, an assumed name.

   Synonyms: (another name) synonym, poecilonym (rare), (assumed name) pseudonym

   Hyponyms: pen name, nom de plume; nom de guerre; nom de clavier, nom de Web, nom de voyage

2. (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
3. (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
4. (programming) An alternate name assigned to something, e.g. a database column to avoid ambiguity in a query.
5. (signal processing) A spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.

• (another name): pseudonym

alias (third-person singular simple present aliases, present participle aliasing, simple past and past participle aliased)

1. (computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
2. (signal processing, of two signals, ambitransitive) To make or become indistinguishable.
   • 1989, Ken C. Pohlmann, The compact disc: a handbook of theory and use, page 22:

     When the signal frequency reaches half the sampling frequency, there are only two samples per cycle, which is the absolute minimum needed to record a waveform. A higher frequency would cause the digitization system to alias.

   • 1999, Carlo Bartolozzi with Riccardo Lencioni, Liver malignancies: diagnostic and interventional radiology, page 59:

     Finally, as it is a frequency detection technique, color Doppler US has the potential to alias

   • 2005, James Bao-yen Tsui, Fundamentals of global positioning system receivers, page 106:

     This technique can be used to alias the L1 and L2 bands of the GPS into the baseband

• Origin of signal processing usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “alias”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “alias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Alais, asail

• IPA^(key): /aˈlias/

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• Rhymes: -ias
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

alias

1. present of alii

From Latin alias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑliɑs/, [ˈɑ̝liɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑliɑs
• Syllabification^(key): a‧li‧as
• Hyphenation^(key): ali‧as

alias

1. alias, AKA (used to introduce an alternative name)

   Synonyms: see eli

   • 2020 September 22, Raila Kinnunen, “70 vuotta Kirkan syntymästä: 'Poismennyttä ihmistä voi ajatella ilolla – Lähtijällä on nyt hyvä olla, hänellä ei ole hätää, ei kipua eikä tuskaa'”, in Apu‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 October 2025:

     Hautakiviä kaatui ja ihmiset talloivat hautoja. Kirill ja pikkuveli Georgij alias Ykä päättivät, että sama ei tapahdu enää ikinä.

     Headstones fell and people trampled on the graves. Kirill and his little brother Georgij alias Ykä decided that such a thing would never happen again.

alias

1. alias

• “alias”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Alisa, Saila, laasi, lasia, saali, salia, silaa

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās (“at another time; elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

• IPA^(key): /a.ljas/

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alias

1. alias

alias m (invariable)

1. alias

• salai

Learned borrowing from Latin alias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːli̯as/

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alias

1. alias, also known as

   Synonyms: anders, eigentlich, benannt

• Alias

• “alias” in Duden online

Borrowed from Dutch alias, from Latin alias (“at another time; at another place, elsewhere, under other circumstances, otherwise”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈlias/ [aˈli.as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: a‧li‧as

alias

1. alias

alias (plural alias-alias)

1. alias
   1. another name; especially, an assumed name
   2. (computing) a name or string that can replace another name or string
2. (statistics) two similar branches of statistical analysis

• “alias”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Unadapted borrowing from Latin alias.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/^[1]
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Hyphenation: à‧lias

alias

1. alias

alias m (invariable)

1. alias

• salai

Feminine adverbial accusative of alius or adverbial genitive from an older genitive feminine singular of the same. Compare perperam, bifāriam, and forās as well as pater familiās.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.li.aːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.li.as]

aliās

1. accusative feminine plural of alius

aliās (not comparable)

1. (time) at a time other than the present; at another time, at other times, on another occasion, sometimes
2. (place) at another place, elsewhere
3. (distributively) at one time... at another time
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 3.21:

     aliās ēruptiōne temptātā, aliās cunīculīs ad aggerem vīneāsque āctīs

     at one time, they attempted a sally, at another time, they built tunnels up to the rampart and mantlets.

• “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alias”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alias”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be inattentive: alias res or aliud agere
    
  • (ambiguous) more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās.^[1] First attested in the 19 century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ljas/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

alias m inan

1. (computing) alias (abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks)

alias

1. (literary, with pseudonyms) AKA, alias

   Synonyms: aka, vel

• “alias”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “alias”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

alias

1. second-person singular present indicative of aliar

Learned borrowing from Latin alias.

alias

1. alias

Learned borrowing from Latin aliās.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaljas/ [ˈa.ljas]
• Rhymes: -aljas
• Syllabification: a‧lias

alias

1. also known as; alias

alias m (plural alias)

1. alias

   Synonyms: sobrenombre, apodo, mote

• “alias”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

alias n

1. an alias (name assumed, often to hide one's identity)

alias (not comparable)

1. alias (not associated with law, but often somewhat jocular formality)

   Nisse alias Nisse med kniven

   Nisse alias Nisse with-the-knife

• “alias”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “alias”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “alias”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)