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say it: NIK-naym
nickname is a noun and verb meaning "a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
a descriptive name for a place or thing
“the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nickname come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.