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incognito

[ in-kog-nee-toh, in-kog-ni-toh ]

adjective

  1. having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions.

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adverb

  1. with the real identity concealed:

    to travel incognito.

noun

plural incognitos
  1. a person who is incognito.
  2. the state of being incognito.
  3. the disguise or character assumed by an incognito.

incognito

/ ɪnˈkɒɡnɪtəʊ; ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtəʊ /

adverb

  1. under an assumed name or appearance; in disguise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person who is incognito
  2. the assumed name or disguise of such a person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of incognito1

First recorded in 1630–40; from Italian, from Latin incognitus “unknown,” from in- in- 3 + cognitus “known” (past participle of Dzō “to get to know”; cognition )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of incognito1

C17: from Italian, from Latin incognitus unknown, from in- 1+ cognitus known
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The self-effacing Tunney wasn’t incognito to a lot of his students.

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All cancers -- particularly immune-silent, fast-growing cancers like glioblastoma -- produce signals called antigens that scientists can use in immune therapies to manually alert the immune system to the presence of incognito cancers.

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He lived incognito in Germany after the end of World War Two and fled to Argentina in 1950.

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Unbeknownst to us though, the real Chalamet, incognito in a mask and baseball hat, slithers through the crowd like an undetected chosen one, or like his character, Lisan al Gaib in “Dune.”

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Lee joked that he and his wife, Maria, sometimes sneak into Robert’s for an incognito date while other lawmakers swapped stories about swinging by the iconic establishment on the weekends.

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