Associations to the word «Moniker»

Wiktionary

MONIKER, noun. A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
MONIKER, noun. A signature.
MONIKER, noun. (computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.

Dictionary definition

MONIKER, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats