nickname

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) (Freq. 1)
- Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
- Henry's nickname was Slim
• Syn:
moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
• Hypernyms:
appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
2. a descriptive name for a place or thing
- the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is 'Old Ironsides'
• Hypernyms:
name

II - verb

give a nickname to (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
dub
• Hypernyms:
name, call
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- They nickname him "Bobby"

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname, dub