NICKNAME

nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname

(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”

nickname

(noun) a descriptive name for a place or thing; “the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is ‘Old Ironsides’”

dub, nickname

(verb) give a nickname to

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

nickname (plural nicknames)

A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.

A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

Synonyms

• (familiar invented given name): handle, hypocoristic, moniker, nick, sobriquet, pet name

• (byname): antonomasia, byname, cognomen

Verb

nickname (third-person singular simple present nicknames, present participle nicknaming, simple past and past participle nicknamed)

(transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

Source: Wiktionary

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Nick"name`, n. Etym: [OE. ekename surname, hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See Eke, and Name.]

Definition: A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.

Nick"name`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nicknaming.]

Definition: To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. Shak. I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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