Another word for nickname | Synonyms for nickname

Another word for nickname

noun

The word or words by which one is called and identified:

appellation, appellative, cognomen, denomination, designation, epithet, name, style, tag, title. (Slang) handle, moniker. See specific, words

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He had never used the nickname – always before it had been Cynthia.
ABRAHAM-MEN, the nickname for vagrants who infested England in Tudor times.
It became a leading text-book in the nascent university, and its popular description as the Liber pauperum gave rise to the nickname pauperistae applied to Oxford students of law.
KIZILBASHES (Turkish, "Red-Heads"), the nickname given by the Orthodox Turks to the Shiitic Turkish immigrants from Persia, who are found chiefly in the plains from KaraHissar along Tokat and Amasia to Angora.
The name Gheg (Gege-a) is not adopted by the Ghegs themselves, being regarded as a nickname; the designation Tosk (Toske-a) is restricted by the Tosks to the inhabitants of a small region north of the lower Viossa (Toskeria).

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