Associations to the word «Nickname»

NICKNAME, noun. A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.

NICKNAME, noun. A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

NICKNAME, verb. (transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

NICKNAME, 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".

NICKNAME, noun. A descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'".

NICKNAME, verb. Give a nickname to.