An informal, often humorous name; a name that is either connected to the real name, the personality, the appearance or an anecdote.
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Examples for "nickname "
Examples for "nickname "
1 The nickname , however, succinctly summarized what was wrong with the Soviet economy.
2 Surely you know the key to a good playground nickname is consistency.
3 Hope was the nickname of an acronym: Hedge funds for Old-Age Pensioners.
4 Immediately he held out his hand and introduced himself, using his nickname .
5 Hikaru could certainly see why Gav had given the man his nickname .
1 She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet .
2 The epithet Silent was in no way applicable to his general character.
3 It is certainly a catchy epithet , but what does it actually mean?
4 Usually as a near epithet from her family and friends in Sandholm.
5 Primrosy is the epithet which this year will retain in my recollection.
1 SOCRATES: There is no difficulty in explaining the other appellation of Athene.
2 The make-up of the Rabbinical Commission did not fully justify its appellation .
3 The master never resented this appellation , and took it in good humor.
4 I thought it was the author to whom persons gave that appellation .
5 He is known by that appellation throughout the cantons and their allies.
1 Native Americans and others have long derided the Redskins moniker as racist.
2 By the end, it was clear why that barracuda moniker had stuck.
3 True to its moniker , The Voice focuses exclusively on a singer's voice.
4 Even by celebrity standards, X Æ A-12is quite the audacious moniker .
5 Adobe is hardly alone in its misleading use of the HTML5 moniker .
1 How well the sobriquet was merited will be seen in the sequel.
2 Hearing his sobriquet , a look of hope gleamed suddenly in his eye.
3 It was how he got the sobriquet of Saint Alex of Conklin.
4 He had fled, discharging at them a sobriquet , like a Parthian dart.
5 His cronies have very appropriately given him the sobriquet of 'Whiskey Jemmie.'
1 The cognomen was put last, and marked the family; as Cicero, Cæsar.
2 Every white dweller among the Indians is known by some special cognomen .
3 De Sade says that his name was Louis, without mentioning his cognomen .
4 Ther cognomen what I packs with me now is sure fantastical.
5 The humorous turn given by Lenaeus to Lutatius's cognomen is not very clear.
1 Indeed, he is generally known and called by the soubriquet , "Sunday News."
2 Pallett is now operating under his name, rather than his previous soubriquet of Final Fantasy
3 Some years ago he gained the soubriquet of the "Fire King!"
4 The soubriquet bears its own explanation with it.
5 You seldom find a man with a soubriquet
1 And hence is Cuscrid the Stammerer thy byname ever since.
2 Drai nickname would confuse consumers, as Burch planned to sell audiobooks and web seminars using the byname .
3 He was Conrad Pile-or"Old Coonrod," as he is known, the descriptive adjectives and byname ever coupled as though one word.
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