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byname

by=name

WORDNET DICTIONARY

byname(n = noun.communication) cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet - 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"

is a kind of appellation, appellative, denomination, designation

byname, v. t.

To give a nickname to. Camden. [1913 Webster]

byname, n. a sobriquet; a nickname.

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