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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name);
- Example: "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"
- Example: "Henry's nickname was Slim"
[syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]

2. a descriptive name for a place or thing;
- Example: "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"


VERB (1)

1. give a nickname to;
[syn: dub, nickname]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

nickname \nick"name`\, n. [OE. ekename surname, hence, a
   nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename,
   influenced also by E. nick, v. See Eke, and Name.]
   A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive
   familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an
   opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nickname \Nick"name`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Nicknaming.]
   To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
   [1913 Webster]

         You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.
                                                  --Shak.
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         I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the
         doctrine of finality.                    --Macaulay.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nickname
    n 1: 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" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen,
         sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
    2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for
       the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
    v 1: give a nickname to [syn: dub, nickname]