Antonyms for nickname
ˈnɪkˌneɪmnick·name

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1. nicknamenoun

   A kind of byname that describes a person by a characteristic of that person.

   Synonyms:
   byname, antonomasia, cognomen

2. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   nick, moniker, hypocoristic, pet name, sobriquet, handle

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1. nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, bynamenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   byname, last name, surname, sobriquet, cognomen, family name, moniker, soubriquet

2. nicknameverb

   a descriptive name for a place or thing

   "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet, moniker, soubriquet, cognomen, byname

3. dub, nicknameverb

   give a nickname to

   Synonyms:
   dub, knight

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1. nicknamenoun

   Synonyms:
   sobriquet

How to use nickname in a sentence?

1. Klay Thompson:

   It's obviously a nickname I earned and I want to live up to it, at the same time, I don't want to go in there and play hero ball. I'm just going to be in there and be Klay Thompson, do what I've been doing the last few games. I know that will allow us to be successful.

2. Kurt Russell:

   I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

3. Coco Gauff:

   His nickname was Saxamo.

4. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

5. Samer Sharif:

   She wants to buy those little hot wheels car toys that Hammoudeh (her brother Mohammed’s nickname) loved to put them on her shelf to look at them and remember him, i keep trying to make her laugh, but it’s not like before.

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