nickname, n.
(nicknames)
freq. cnt. 1
(nicknames)
freq. cnt. 1
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
<noun.communication> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
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
a descriptive name for a place or thing
<noun.communication>
nickname
sample sentences
"the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
semantic pointers
hypernym