Synonym: byname, cognomen, dub, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet. Similar words: name, by name, good name, tournament, in the name of, acknowledge, acknowledgement, dynamic. Meaning: ['nɪkneɪm] n. 1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) 2. a descriptive name for a place or thing. v. give a nickname to.
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91. The writer was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She took the nickname Toni in college.
92. He took other ideas from the American auto industry, too. The name "Motown, " for example, is another form of Detroit's nickname, the "Motor City".
93. BJ, huh? Well, Im not going to tell you what my nickname is! Oh, here comes the professor. Whats his name, anyway? Scarey, or something like that?
94. Such troglodytes, as their nickname suggests, often come from unfashionable parts of the country.
95. You would think Colorado would be known as the Rocky Mountain State. But its nickname is the Centennial State .
96. Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president under his nickname Jimmy.
97. He was the first important jazz soloist to emerge and is still loved by fans, who fondly refer to him by his nickname "Satchmo".
98. Rhode Island's nickname is Little Rhody because of its size.
99. Winslow and his fellow diggers have given themselves a nickname: The Dirt Team.
100. The Beehive State of Utah has no more beehives than any other state. The nickname is from the Mormon Church's symbol for hard work.
101. You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname.
102. As well as the paid help, Darwin could also rely on the college "gyp", the Cambridge nickname for a valet or servant.
103. Here set the server name, server port number and nickname.
104. The Yeliou promontory recalls a giant tortoise slipping out from DatunMountain into the Pacific Ocean, a resemblance that has earned it the nickname of the "Yeliou tortoise."
105. Vicki: Ah well you see it's usually called by a nickname – The Gherkin.
106. Jackson earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run (also known as Manassas) in July 1861 when he rushed his troops forward to close a gap in the line against a determined Union attack.
107. Tyche is the nickname given to a hypothesized gas giant planet located in the Solar System's Oort cloud.
108. A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name. A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.
109. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils, " which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion.
110. "Spiny anteater" is the nickname of a strange little animal (1) whose real name is echidna.
111. "Maybe an appropriate nickname would be Erebus"—ancient Greece's god of darkness.
112. The nickname comes from the Chinese word for returnees, haiguipai[sentencedict.com], a homonym for sea turtles.
113. The Congressional Budget Office (usually known by its nickname, "the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office") projects inflation rates of less than 2 percent for the next decade.
114. Sonya holds many eating records —her nickname is "The Widower" —and still manages to maintain her teensy frame.
115. Horace Fletcher earned the nickname "The Great Masticator" by his diet of chewing food thirty thirty two times (about 100 times per minute) before swallowing.
116. With their snowy skin, plump cheeks, teeny fingers, toes, and pouty rosebud lips, newborn babies really do deserve their Sleeping Beauties nickname.
117. You might get dumped , divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public , be afflicted with a demeaning nickname(Sentencedict.com), or just have a plain old bad -hair day.
118. A leading statesman and presidential aspirant, Clay's political intuition earned him the nickname "The Great Compromiser."
119. Despite his enduring fame and violent nickname, Machine Gun Kelly never killed anyone, and he was never known to fire his namesake tommy gun (a gift from his wife) at anything but tin cans.
120. Mr Osborne has been in office for a year and a half. By a similar stage of Gordon Brown's time at the Treasury, he had earned the nickname the "iron chancellor".