noun
definition
A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing.
definition
A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.
verb
definition
To give a nickname to (a person or thing).
Examples of nickname in a Sentence
He had never used the nickname – always before it had been Cynthia.
The nickname had been given him by three other salesmen at the office.
She picked up the nickname "Joey" when she was very young.
The present bridge, the work of Antonio or Giovanni Contino, whose nickname was da Ponte, dates from 1588-91, and cost 250,000 ducats.
The name Gheg (Gege-a) is not adopted by the Ghegs themselves, being regarded as a nickname; the designation Tosk (Toske-a) is restricted by the Tosks to the inhabitants of a small region north of the lower Viossa (Toskeria).
It became a leading text-book in the nascent university, and its popular description as the Liber pauperum gave rise to the nickname pauperistae applied to Oxford students of law.
To this fact the very nickname " Brownists," usually given to early " Separatists " by accident, but Congregationalists in essence, is itself witness.
He was eloquent (hence his nickname "the Siren") but controversial in tone.
A dungeon bears the nickname of "Wallace's Beef Barrel."
He was given at an early age the nickname of Lackland because, unlike his elder brothers, he received no apanage in the continental provinces.
His dogmatic and fearless attitude in controversy earned for him the nickname "Pope Gib."
It was, historically, only a personal nickname of Geoffrey, as was " Beauclerc " of his father-in-law (Henry I.) and " Curtmantel " of his son (Henry II.), and was derived from his wearing in his cap a sprig of the broom (genet) plant, "which in early summer makes the open country of Anjou and Maine a blaze of living gold."
He was high in favour with Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz and fell much under the influence of General Ignatiev, the forceful Russian ambassador before the war of 1877-78, his subserviency to Russia earning for him the nickname of "Mahmudoff."
The nickname cartridge-prince (Kartdtschenprinz) bestowed upon him during the troubles of 48 was undeserved; but he was notoriously opposed to Liberalism and, had he followed his own instincts, he would have modified the constitution in a reactionary sense.
It was in connexion with this exploit that Angus acquired the nickname of "Bell-the-cat."
He cancelled, however, the increase of the pay granted by Walid and thus earned the nickname of the Nagis (diminisher).
The name Khorrami, or Khorramdini, "adherent of the pleasant religion," seems to be a nickname.
An unhappy propensity to duelling, the origin in Arkansas of the bowie-knife, - from an alleged use of which Arkansas received the nickname, which it has always retained, of the " toothpick state," - and other backwoods associations gave the state a reputation which to some extent has survived in spite of many years of sober history.
The reign of " Brother Sacristan, " the nickname given to Joseph by Frederick the Great, was one continual suppression of superfluous abbeys, feast-days, pilgrimages.
His nickname Parapinaces (" starver") was due to his causing the price of wheat to rise.
He shifted his ground in politics with every new moon, and the world fastened on him the nickname, which he himself adopted in his "champagne" speech, of the weathercock.
Of humble origin, he appears to have earned a livelihood as a porter; hence his nickname of "Sack-bearer" (IaKK&s, for vaKK040pos).
He introduced Burke to William Gerard Hamilton (1759), now only remembered by the nickname "single-speech," derived from the circumstance of his having made a single brilliant speech in the House of Commons, which was followed by years of almost unbroken silence.
His original name was Bassianus; his nickname Caracalla was derived from the long Gallic tunic which he wore and introduced into the army.
Lapp is almost certainly a nickname imposed by foreigners, although some of the Lapps apply it contemptuously to those of their countrymen whom they think to be less civilized than themselves.'
As to his personal appearance we only know that he had a long cleft beard, whence his nickname of Tiugeskaeg or Fork-Beard.
They repaid him with the opprobrious nickname of " Sheemas-a-Cacagh," or dirty James.
Somers was against such a measure; but Godolphin, who was believed to be personally alluded to in one of these harangues under the nickname of "Volpone," urged the necessity of a prosecution, and gained the day.
Private envy and public misconceptions very soon summed up her excessive unpopularity in the menacing nickname, LAutrichienne.
He cut his hand in his eagerness, and declared that the blood of a king was well shed in securing the destruction of such an instrument whence his popular nickname of Peter of the Dagger (delPunejalet).
This aspirate, expressed by j, often has no etymological origin; for example, Jimdalo, a nickname applied to Andalusians, is simply the word Andaluz pronounced with the strong aspiration.
Always stay anonymous, using a nickname all the time.
Despite the fact that nobody is ever going to nickname him Charisma Kerry, the man is an animated conversationalist during interviews.
The mystery of how the line acquired its nickname still eludes the author.
They are the only Scottish team to win the European Cup, beating Inter Milan in 1967 to earn the nickname The Lisbon Lions.
Lebanon 6 Which island acquired the nickname of George Cross Island?
If even anyone deserved the nickname of ' Lukewarm ' it has to be him.
The road was given the nickname " Sacred Way " by the French.
His extraordinary, stoic bravery earned him unconditional tributory awe from the Establishment, and the affectionate family nickname ' one leg ' .
Such was his reputation for escaping from prison that he acquired the popular nickname, ' the Welsh Houdini ' .
In turn the parents of Korean children often give then a unique nickname within the family.
Patton's childhood nickname is consistent with his sanguine temperament.
He earned the nickname Alex due to his striking resemblance to a large marine turtle in Sea World Skegness.
His fiery temperament earned him the nickname of the ' Red Monk ' .
I bet you'd all like to know why his old wrestling partner back in high school got the nickname woody.
The antagonism between the "black" and the "white marquess" (the latter being the nickname given to Carmarthen in allusion to his sickly appearance), which had been forgotten in their common hatred to the French policy and to Rome, revived in all its bitterness.
Skilful manipulation of the electoral returns enabled these two parties to hold office in fairly regular rotation; hence arose the popular nickname of rotativos, applied to Progressives and Regenerators alike.
The British colonist is as capable of a grim jest as the Transvaal Boer, and this action of Mr Schreiner's won for him the nickname " Ammunition Bill."
As a nickname the term "agnostic" was soon misused to cover any and every variation of scepticism, and just as popular preachers confused it with atheism in their denunciations, so the callow freethinker - following Tennyson's path of "honest doubt" - classed himself with the agnostics, even while he combined an instinctively Christian theism with a facile rejection of the historical evidences for Christianity.
You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more" (this nickname, bestowed on Vera by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), "and your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people!