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Nickname - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Nickname : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: moniker, cognomen, sobriquet,
soubriquet]
2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for
the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
(verb)
1: give a nickname to [syn: dub]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Nickname : \Nick"name`\, n. [OE. ekename surname, hence, a
nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename,
influenced also by E. nick, v. See Eke, and Name.]
A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity;
a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Nickname : \Nick"name`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Nicknaming.]
To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.
--Shak.
I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the
doctrine of finality. --Macaulay.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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