Nickname is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NICKNAME in dictionary:

VERB:
• to give a pet name to
• give a nickname to
• To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
• call by a nickname
NOUN:
• a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name
• familiar name given to a person or place
• A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
• a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person\'s given name)
• a descriptive name for a place or thing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to give an alternate name to

Words related to NICKNAME

byname13 cognomen13 nicknamed18 nicknamer17 nicknamers18 nicknames17 nicknaming19 sobriquet20

Words that contain NICKNAME

nicknamed18 nicknamer17 nicknames17 nicknamers18

How to use NICKNAME in a sentence

• The glasses, the necktie, and his little solemn pauses before he delivered an opinion, had given his nickname.
• The name of the brown boy was Manua Loa, or something like that, but he was always called Cocoanut, the nickname agreeing perfectly with his general solid, nubbinish appearance.
• For instance, the English nickname Livorno Leghorn, the Germans insist on calling Venice Venedig, and the French convert Washington into the Chinese word Voss-Hang-Tong.
• When his parents called him Harold in the hearing of his playmates, the boy was ashamed, for he felt that a nickname gave him equal standing among his fellows.
• By the second day they had given her a nickname which made her furious.
• He was a man about twenty-eight years old, and looked even older, hence the nickname of Dad.
• There was no lower depth to which Tom could sink, unless McBane should invent a nickname by which to address him.
• Hence he who had before won a nickname for slaying Hunding, now bore a surname for the slaughter of Hothbrodd.
• The nickname is intended to kid him a little bit, but is really meant as a term of respect and affection.
• In other states the man who shows himself base and cowardly wins to himself an evil reputation and the nickname of a coward, but that is all.
• If you were rich and suited them, you were given a nickname probably, and were allowed to play cards with them, and lose your money for their benefit.
• Whatever he may be called in history, he was known in camps and on the battle-field under the nickname of Old Blood-and-Thunder.
• It was characteristic of him, for one thing, that he had no nickname.
• Double names occasionally occur, the second being a nickname or true surname, as Osgod Clapa, Benedict Biscop, Thurkytel Myranheafod, Godwine Bace, and AElfric Cerm.
• Of course he was not a good-tempered man, or he would not have justified his nickname of Red Precipitate, but he spared the rod with me, and failed to keep me in order.
• But in ordinary families it was quite natural that a nickname applied to the father should become a surname.
• Whatever he may be called in history, he was known in camps and on the battlefield under the nickname of Old Blood-and-Thunder.
• His real name was Antonio Allegri, but in the sixteenth century a man would often be called by a nickname referring to some peculiarity, or to his birthplace.
• Nor could that programme and many besides from the same pen and others be compressed under the nickname of Academic Liberalism.
• His Boniface, the landlord in the former of these two plays, has become the type, as well as the ordinary quasi-facetious nickname, of an innkeeper.
• His name, Gwynplaine, little known at any time, had disappeared under his nickname, as his face had disappeared under its grin.
• Hang-chow went at the time by the nickname of the melting-pot for money.

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