Synonyms for nickname
ˈnɪkˌneɪmnick·name

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1. nicknamenoun

   A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

   Synonyms:
   byname, antonomasia, cognomen

2. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   nick, moniker, hypocoristic, pet name, sobriquet, handle

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1. nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, bynamenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   byname, last name, surname, sobriquet, cognomen, family name, moniker, soubriquet

2. nicknameverb

   a descriptive name for a place or thing

   "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet, moniker, soubriquet, cognomen, byname

3. dub, nicknameverb

   give a nickname to

   Synonyms:
   dub, knight

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1. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   SOBRIQUET, by-name

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1. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet

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1. List of paraphrases for "nickname":

   moniker, alias, pseudonym, pseudo, surname

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1. Sam Johnson:

   John Kerry showed his true colors, and they are not red, white and blue, is it any wonder that my comrades from Vietnam and I have a nickname for him similar to 'Hanoi Jane?' It's called 'Hanoi John.'.

2. President Obama:

   You may have heard of this, Kanye is thinking about running for Speaker of the House. It couldn't get any stranger...But in case Kanye is serious about this whole POTUS thing -- or as he calls it 'peezy' [West's nickname is Yeezy] -- I do have advice for him.

3. Judith Martin, (Miss Manners):

   What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

4. Lisa Niemi:

   The first time Buddy( her nickname for Swayze) and I danced together was at a school exhibition, we walked out on stage. I looked in his eyes, it was like everything came alive.

5. Klay Thompson:

   It's obviously a nickname I earned and I want to live up to it, at the same time, I don't want to go in there and play hero ball. I'm just going to be in there and be Klay Thompson, do what I've been doing the last few games. I know that will allow us to be successful.