nickname
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
- A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
verb
- To give a nickname to (a person or thing).
Pronunciation
/ˈnɪkneɪm/
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Word forms
nickname
nicknames
nicknaming
nicknamed
Etymology
From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname.
For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, orange, umpire.
Translations
Afrikaans: bynaam
Afrikaans: volksnaam
Afrikaans: noemnaam
Albanian: nofkë
Arabic: لَقَب
Arabic: كُنْيَة
Arabic: اِسْم الدَّلَع
Armenian: մականուն
Azerbaijani: ləqəb
Azerbaijani: ayama
Bashkir: ҡушамат
Belarusian: мяну́шка
Belarusian: клі́чка
Belarusian: на́звішча
Belarusian: на́зьвішча
Bengali: ডাকনাম
Central Bikol: bansag
Breton: moranv
Bulgarian: пря́кор
Bulgarian: про́звище
Bulgarian: умали́телно и́ме
Catalan: sobrenom
Chinese Cantonese: 花名
Chinese Mandarin: 綽號 /绰号
Chinese Mandarin: 外號 /外号
Chinese Mandarin: 花名
Czech: přezdívka
Danish: øgenavn
Danish: kælenavn
Danish: tilnavn
Dutch: bijnaam
Esperanto: kromnomo
Esperanto: alnomo
Estonian: hüüdnimi
Finnish: lempinimi
Finnish: liikanimi
Finnish: lisänimi
French: surnom
French: sobriquet
Galician: alcume
Galician: alcuño
Georgian: მეტსახელი
Georgian: ზედმეტსახელი
Georgian: შერქმეული სახელი
German: Spitzname
German: Beiname
Greek: παρατσούκλι
Ancient Greek: ἐπωνυμία
Hebrew: כִּינּוּי חִיבָּה
Hebrew: שֵׁם לווַאי
Hindi: उपनाम
Hindi: लक़ब
Hungarian: becenév
Icelandic: gælunafn
Icelandic: uppnefni
Icelandic: viðurnefni
Icelandic: auknefni
Ido: surnomacho
Indonesian: panggilan
Irish: leasainm
Irish: forainm
Italian: soprannome
Japanese: 愛称
Japanese: ニックネーム
Japanese: 渾名
Japanese: 綽名
Japanese: 綽号
Kazakh: лақап
Kazakh: ат
Kazakh: лақап ат
Khmer: សម្មតិនាម
Korean: 애칭
Korean: 별명
Korean: 닉네임
Northern Kurdish: leqeb
Kyrgyz: ылакап ат
Kyrgyz: ат
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