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nickname
noun
verb
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
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ˈnɪkneɪm
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noun
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”
noun
a descriptive name for a place or thing
“the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is ‘Old Ironsides’”
verb
give a nickname to
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Example Sentences
Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
Henry's nickname was Slim
the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is ‘Old Ironsides’
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