| Noun | 1. | nickname - 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" | |
| 2. | nickname - a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing" | |
| Verb | 1. | nickname - give a nickname tocall, name - assign a specified, proper name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader" | |