Meanings of nickname in English

SOCRATES: There is no difficulty in explaining the other appellation of Athene.

The make-up of the Rabbinical Commission did not fully justify its appellation.

The master never resented this appellation, and took it in good humor.

I thought it was the author to whom persons gave that appellation.

He is known by that appellation throughout the cantons and their allies.

Native Americans and others have long derided the Redskins moniker as racist.

By the end, it was clear why that barracuda moniker had stuck.

True to its moniker, The Voice focuses exclusively on a singer's voice.

Even by celebrity standards, X Æ A-12is quite the audacious moniker.

Adobe is hardly alone in its misleading use of the HTML5 moniker.

How well the sobriquet was merited will be seen in the sequel.

Hearing his sobriquet, a look of hope gleamed suddenly in his eye.

It was how he got the sobriquet of Saint Alex of Conklin.

He had fled, discharging at them a sobriquet, like a Parthian dart.

His cronies have very appropriately given him the sobriquet of 'Whiskey Jemmie.'

The cognomen was put last, and marked the family; as Cicero, Cæsar.

Every white dweller among the Indians is known by some special cognomen.

De Sade says that his name was Louis, without mentioning his cognomen.

Ther cognomen what I packs with me now is sure fantastical.

The humorous turn given by Lenaeus to Lutatius's cognomen is not very clear.

Indeed, he is generally known and called by the soubriquet, "Sunday News."

Pallett is now operating under his name, rather than his previous soubriquet of Final Fantasy

Some years ago he gained the soubriquet of the "Fire King!"

The soubriquet bears its own explanation with it.

You seldom find a man with a soubriquet

And hence is Cuscrid the Stammerer thy byname ever since.

Drai nickname would confuse consumers, as Burch planned to sell audiobooks and web seminars using the byname.

He was Conrad Pile-or"Old Coonrod," as he is known, the descriptive adjectives and byname ever coupled as though one word.

Can't we give it an informal name then, just between us?

The informal name "Sphinxian swamp siren" was already in use among the few informed parties.

The organization's informal name is English Heritage.

People have given them informal names inspired by their geographical peculiarities.

Those had informal names too: Queeds (Quarantine Enforcement and Detention), Feelies (Forward Intelligence), and Zerks (a contraction of Berserkers).

There they discovered a slumbering science fiction fan named George Hahn, a guest of the Futurian commune who had just arrived in New York.

She signed it, using the original spelling of her middle name: Emily.

Carson's your first name, all right, and your middle name is Woolford.

She had given him his middle name in honor of his godfather.

My daughter's middle name is Grace actually - named after this album.

Leigh is actually my middle name and Bush is my last name.