Definitions for nicknames

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nicknames nick·name

Spelling: [nik-neym]

IPA: /ˈnɪkˌneɪm/

Nicknames is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 425 anagrams from letters in nicknames (aceikmnns).

Definitions for nicknames

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 nicknames

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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