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Meanings of epithet in English
Synonyms
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
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
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.
Usage of epithet in English
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.
6
Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet.
7
He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet.
8
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
9
He muttered an epithet that expressed his doubt in one explosive syllable.
10
The one epithet refers to atmosphere, the other to number of pages.
11
Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.
12
Gray, in repeating this imagery, has borrowed a remarkable epithet from Milton:
13
I mean to marry the lady to whom you give that epithet.
14
I believe you must substitute some more indifferent epithet for the present.
15
If you insist on the longer line, equip 'grave' with an epithet.
16
The epithet seemed intended to apply to every non-Okie in the universe.
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Epithet across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common