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nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname(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"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"

surname, family name, cognomen, last name(noun)

the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual

richly deserved the cognomen of "Butterfingers"

a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known

"Christopher Columbus" is the Latinized cognomen of the navigator who was known to his Spanish crewmates as Cristóbal Colón

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