Synonyms:
nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
Meaning: 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"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
dub, nickname
Meaning: give a nickname to
Usage examples
Did I tell you the nickname they gave me--'King'?
"Just like your own nickname happened," he answered gloomily.
Moreover, the boys had made a nickname for their leader, and nicknames mean a great deal in student life.
He followed this with others as successful, signed "Boz"--the child nickname of one of his younger brothers.
'Look at him,' said she; 'his beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly-beard.' So the king got the nickname of Grisly-beard.
Never marry a man, my dear, with a double-barrelled name and no visible means of subsistence; above all, if he's generally known by a nickname.
In the van of the pursuit ran a tall, fair-haired boy, who wore the bright green breeches of a tailor's clerk, who was famous for his prowess in these schoolboy battles, and who, because of his clothes, had been given the picturesque nickname of "Green Breeks."