nickname

Noun

• a descriptive name for a place or thing
  • the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
    

• 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
    

Verb

• give a nickname to

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  moniker , cognomen , sobriquet , soubriquet , byname , dub