"nicknames" in the noun sense
1. nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname
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"
2. nickname
a descriptive name for a place or thing
"the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
"nicknames" in the verb sense
1. dub, nickname
give a nickname to
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