moniker

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnicknamecognomensobriquetsoubriquetbyname

   Broaderappellation

Other forms of moniker

plural

monikers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moniker

What does moniker mean?

moniker means "a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)".

How many syllables are in moniker?

moniker has 3 syllables: mo-ni-ker. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmɑnɪkɚ/.

What is another word for moniker?

Close synonyms include nickname, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moniker a common word?

moniker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.