Synonyms for nickname
ˈnɪkˌneɪmnick·name

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1. nicknamenoun

   A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

   Synonyms:
   byname, antonomasia, cognomen

2. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   nick, moniker, hypocoristic, pet name, sobriquet, handle

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1. nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, bynamenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   byname, last name, surname, sobriquet, cognomen, family name, moniker, soubriquet

2. nicknameverb

   a descriptive name for a place or thing

   "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet, moniker, soubriquet, cognomen, byname

3. dub, nicknameverb

   give a nickname to

   Synonyms:
   dub, knight

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1. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   SOBRIQUET, by-name

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1. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet

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1. List of paraphrases for "nickname":

   moniker, alias, pseudonym, pseudo, surname

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1. Kelly Fusco:

   Tony Fusco and his wife had a very, very normal life, my nickname for Katie was Pac-Man. She was always eating. She loved animals. She was a vegetarian.

2. Coco Gauff:

   His nickname was Saxamo.

3. Kurt Russell:

   I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

4. Paris Hilton:

   I've always been Paris Hilton, so I've been obsessed with anything to do with technology and the future, now my new nickname is' The Queen of the Metaverse,'.

5. Camp Gyno ':

   Camp Gyno ''s clearly got a nickname for life. It'll probably be the beginning of Camp Gyno ' college essay as well, camp Gyno ''s embraced it, but Camp Gyno ''s moved on.