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Meanings of epithet in inglés

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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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      epìteto
      portugués
      nomes
      catalán
      epítet

      A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.

            nomes
            Usage of epithet in inglés
            1
            She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet.
            Snow Crash
            2
            The epithet Silent was in no way applicable to his general character.
            By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
            3
            It is certainly a catchy epithet, but what does it actually mean?
            The Guardian
            4
            Usually as a near epithet from her family and friends in Sandholm.
            Fractures - Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon
            5
            Primrosy is the epithet which this year will retain in my recollection.
            Our Village
            6
            Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet.
            Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
            7
            He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet.
            Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
            8
            In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
            The Coming Race
            9
            He muttered an epithet that expressed his doubt in one explosive syllable.
            G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
            10
            The one epithet refers to atmosphere, the other to number of pages.
            The Bibliotaph, and Other People
            11
            Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.
            The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
            12
            Gray, in repeating this imagery, has borrowed a remarkable epithet from Milton:
            Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
            13
            I mean to marry the lady to whom you give that epithet.
            The Flight of the Shadow
            14
            I believe you must substitute some more indifferent epithet for the present.
            The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
            15
            If you insist on the longer line, equip 'grave' with an epithet.
            The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2
            16
            The epithet seemed intended to apply to every non-Okie in the universe.
            Cities in Flight
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            Epithet through the time
            Epithet across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common