'Nickname' definitions:
Definition of 'nickname'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
noun
A descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
verb
Give a nickname to [syn: dub, nickname]
Definition of 'Nickname'
From: GCIDE
- Nickname \Nick"name`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nicknaming.] To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. [1913 Webster]
- You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'nickname'
From: GCIDE
- nickname \nick"name`\, n. [OE. ekename surname, hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See Eke, and Name.] A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'nickname'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affectionate name,
- agnomen,
- appellation,
- appellative,
- baptize,
- byname,
- byword,
- call,
- christen,
- cognomen,
- define,
- denominate,
- denomination,
- designate,
- diminutive,
- dub,
- entitle,
- epithet,
- first name,
- handle,
- hypocoristic,
- identify,
- label,
- moniker,
- name,
- nominate,
- pet name,
- sobriquet,
- specify,
- style,
- tag,
- term,
- title