Sobriquet
WordNet
noun
(1) 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"
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Etymology
From , from .
Noun
- A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name).
- "The Bard" is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.
Quotations
- 1862, A. Banning Norton
- The sobriquet of Johnny Appleseed attached to him, though his real name was Chapman, in consequence of his being ever engaged in gathering and planting appleseed and cultivating nurseries of apple trees.