Associations to the word «Nickname»

Wiktionary

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).

Dictionary definition

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.

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