nickname

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet,
  • (n) a descriptive name for a place or thing
    • the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is "Old Ironsides"

Verbs

  • (v) give a nickname to dub,

Synonyms

dub byname cognomen moniker sobriquet soubriquet

Words of close approximity

nicknack