Nickname
noun'nɪk,neɪm
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”
“Henry's nickname was Slim”
a descriptive name for a place or thing
“the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'”
Type of:Name
Verb
give a nickname to
Similar:DubType of:CallName
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA