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nickname
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nickname has 2 senses
- nickname(n = noun.communication) byname, cognomen, moniker, 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
- nickname(n = noun.communication) Array - a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'" is a kind of name
Derived form verb nickname1
Verb nickname has 1 sense
- nickname(v = verb.communication) dub - give a nickname to; Array is one way to call, name
Derived form noun nickname1
Sample sentence:
They nickname him "Bobby"
CIDE DICTIONARY
nickname, 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]
nickname, v. t.
To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. [1913 Webster]
"You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke."
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"I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
nickname, n. & v.
--n. a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name.
--v.tr.
1 give a nickname to.
2 call (a person or thing) by a nickname.
--n. a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name.
--v.tr.
1 give a nickname to.
2 call (a person or thing) by a nickname.
Etymology
ME f. eke-name, with n from an (cf. NEWT): eke = addition, f. OE eaca (as EKE)
THESAURUS
nickname
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, titleROGET THESAURUS
nickname
Misnomer
N misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, Mrs, Malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, Hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy, misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged, in no sense.VB misname, miscall, misterm, nickname, assume a name.
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