a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
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byname |
cognomen |
moniker |
nickname |
sobriquet |
soubriquet |
sample sentences
"Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph""Henry's nickname was Slim"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym