Usually means: Secondary or alternative name used.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. byname: Merriam-Webster
  2. byname: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. byname: Collins English Dictionary
  4. byname: Vocabulary.com
  5. byname: Wordnik
  6. byname: Wiktionary
  7. byname: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Byname, byname: Dictionary.com
  9. Byname: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Byname: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. byname: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Byname: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. byname: FreeDictionary.org
  14. byname: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Byname: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Byname: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Byname: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (byname)

noun:  (archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
noun:  (archaic, historical) A nickname.
noun:  (UK dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
noun:  (Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.

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