nickname : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nickname	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for nickname
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nickname n 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" Synonym(s): nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'" v give a nickname to Synonym(s): dub, nickname
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nickname \Nick"name`\, n. [OE. ekename surname, hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See {Eke}, and {Name}.] A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nickname \Nick"name`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nicknamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nicknaming}.] To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. --Shak. I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. --Macaulay.