Meaning

3 senses
  1. A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

    The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker.

    Name, Spitzname

    про́звищеprózvišče

  2. A person's signature.

  3. An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.

More definitions
  • a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Isabelle was known by the moniker “Bell.”

    deIsabelle war unter dem Spitznamen „Bell“ bekannt. — Waldelfe

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
personal name or nickname:
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By meaning 1
personal name or nickname:

Origin

Unknown; first attested in 1849. Suggested derivations are:

Unknown; first attested in 1849. Suggested derivations are:

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Forms

plural: monikers

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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