nickname

Noun
  1. A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) (synset 106349063)
    "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
    is a type of: appellation, appellative, denomination, designation - identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
    same as: byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet
  2. A descriptive name for a place or thing (synset 106349373)
    "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
    is a type of: name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known
Verb
  1. Give a nickname to (synset 201030649)
    is a type of: be known as, call, know as, name - assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
    same as: dub

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