nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname -- (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")
nickname -- (a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'")
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