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nickname

DEFINITIONS OF: nickname

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n a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

“Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph”
“Henry's nickname was Slim”
Synonyms:
byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet
Type of:
appellation, appellative, denomination, designation
identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

n a descriptive name for a place or thing

“the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'”
Type of:
name
a language unit by which a person or thing is known

v give a nickname to

Synonyms:
dub
Type of:
call, name
assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
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