Definitions for nickname

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nickname nick·name

Spelling: [nik-neym]

IPA: /ˈnɪkˌneɪm/

Nickname is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in nickname (aceikmnn).

Definitions for nickname

noun

1. a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: .
2. a familiar form of a proper name, as Jim for James and Peg for Margaret.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a nickname to (a person, town, etc.); call by a nickname.
2. Archaic. to call by an incorrect or improper name; misname.

Origin of nickname

1400-50; late Middle English nekename, for ekename (the phrase an ekename being taken as a nekename). See eke², name; cf. Examples for nickname

His parentage was obscure, and he was generally known only by his nickname of Professor.

Her “little bird” may have been The3Pr0, the nickname for the many cybersecurity experts believe is the founder of SEA.

After a joyous ramble, 'Ockley's nickname still sticks to him!'

His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim.

We call him the Philosopher, a nickname folks have given him in the neighbourhood.

This nickname, which she received full in the face for the first time, fell on her like a blow.

Mamoru taunts Usagi by giving her the nickname “dumpling head.”

My dear sir, perhaps you don't know that my nickname since the age of five has been 'Duffer?'

He even allegedly had a nickname for his violent, aggressive alter ego: Rick.

My nickname was Captain, though I was a private, first class.