nickname
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- designation hypernym
Related & opposite
- dub derivation
Sense 2 verb
give a nickname to
Types & categories
- call hypernym
Related & opposite
- cognomen derivation
Sense 3 noun
a descriptive name for a place or thing
the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
Types & categories
- name hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dub |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | designation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cognomen |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | call |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | name |