Meaning

2 senses
  1. 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.

    "The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City.

    Spitzname

    кли́чкаklíčka, про́звищеprózvišče, псевдони́мpsevdoním

    прі́звиськоprízvysʹko, кли́чкаklýčka

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

  2. A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.

    My name is Jonathan, but I go by my nickname, Johnny.

    Beiname

    a descriptive name for a place or thing

Examples

164 sentences
  1. I didn't know Tom had a nickname.

    Я не знав, що у Тома є прізвисько. — deniko

    ruЯ не знал, что у Тома есть псевдоним. — odexed

  2. Do you have a nickname?

    Ти маєш якесь прізвисько? — deniko

    ruУ тебя есть ник? — odexed

    deHast du einen Spitznamen? — al_ex_an_der

  3. What's your nickname?

    Яке в тебе прізвисько? — deniko

    ruКакой у тебя ник? — odexed

    deWas ist dein Spitzname? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. How did you get that nickname?

    deWie bist du denn zu dem Spitznamen gekommen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom said I needed a nickname.

    ruТом сказал, что мне нужно прозвище. — sharptoothed

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
familiar, invented given name:
Русский
By meaning 1
familiar, invented given name:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
familiar, invented given name:
familiar, shortened or diminutive name:

Origin

From Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekena

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.

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Forms

plural: nicknames
Singularnickname
Pluralnicknames

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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