1. A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
   "Henry's nickname was Slim"; "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph";
   - moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname, monicker
    
2. A descriptive name for a place or thing
   "the nickname for USS Constitution is ‘Old Ironsides’"

1. Give a nickname to
   "They nicknamed him 'Shorty' because of his height";
   - dub

Derived forms: nicknamed, nicknaming, nicknames

Type of: appellation, appellative, be known as, call, christen, denomination, designation, know as, name

Encyclopedia: Nickname