sobriquet

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, nickname, soubriquet

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