Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - nickname
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Nickname
nickname
I. noun Etymology: Middle English nekename additional name, alteration (resulting from misdivision of an ekename) of ekename, from eke eke, also + name name Date: 15th century 1. a usually descriptive name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to a person, place, or thing 2. a familiar form of a proper name (as of a person or a city) II. transitive verb Date: 1536 1. misname, miscall 2. to give a ~ to • ~r noun
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n. & v. --n. a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name. --v.tr. 1 give a nickname to. 2 call (a person or thing) by a nickname. Etymology: ME f. eke-name, with n from an (cf. NEWT): eke = addition, f. OE eaca (as EKE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. прозвище 2. уменьшительное имя 3. давать прозвище he was nicknamed Shorty —- его прозвали Коротышкой 4. называть уменьшительным именем 5. называть неправильно, не так, как полагается ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(nicknames, nicknaming, nicknamed) 1. A nickname is an informal name for someone or something. Red got his nickname for his red hair. N-COUNT 2. If you nickname someone or something, you give them an informal name. When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf... Which newspaper was once nicknamed The Thunderer? VERB: V n n, be V-ed n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a name given to someone, especially by their friends or family, that is not their real name and is often connected with what they look like or something they have done - nickname v (Frank Sinatra, nicknamed `Old Blue Eyes') ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1440, misdivision of an eke name, lit. "an additional name," from O.E. eaca "an increase," related to eacian "to increase" (see eke). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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