nickname
nickname is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 30 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alias
- anonymous
- assume
- assumed
- by-name
- call
- course
- having
- innominate
- miscall
- misname
- misnomer
- misterm
- name
- nameless
- neologism
- nom
- non
- plume
- pseudonym
- pseudonymous
- self
- sense
- so-called
- sobriquet
- soi-disant
- theatre
- title
- what
- without
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is nickname.
- What is a name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation called?
- What is 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 called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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