nnoun.communicationa familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)Synset:byname cognomen moniker sobriquet soubriquet
Examples:- Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
- Henry's nickname was Slim
Derivationally Related Form:nickname
Hypernyms:appellation appellative denomination designation
Inherited Hypernyms:nicknameappellationnamelanguage unitpartrelationabstractionentity
nnoun.communicationa descriptive name for a place or thingExamples:- the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is 'Old Ironsides'
Hypernyms:name
Inherited Hypernyms:nicknamenamelanguage unitpartrelationabstractionentity
vverb.communicationgive a nickname toSynset:dub
Derivationally Related Form:nickname
Hypernyms:be known as call know as name
Inherited Hypernyms:dubnamelabeldesignate
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody something | They --- him "Bobby" (apply to: nickname, dub)