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, cognomen, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet.

Roget 565: misnomer; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.]; Mrs.    Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em etc. (neologism) 563^†; Hoosier.    nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre [Fr.], nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy.    ... show more

Dutch: naam, alias, bijnaam, scheldnaam, schimpnaam, spotnaam
Polish: przezwisko, imionisko

A descriptive name for a place or thing.

Give a nickname to.

synonym: dub.

Roget 565: misname, miscall, misterm^†; nickname; assume a name.