nickname
noun
1. 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
Similar word(s): byname, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet
Definition categories: communication, appellation, appellative, denomination, designation
2. a descriptive name for a place or thing
- the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
Definition categories: communication, name