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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nickname \Nick"name'\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Nicknamed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nicknaming}.] To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. --Shak.
I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
nickname \nick"name'\, noun [OE. ekename surname, hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See {Eke}, and {Name}.] A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nickname
noun
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" [syn: {moniker}, {cognomen}, {sobriquet}, {soubriquet}]
2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is 'Old Ironsides'"
verb: give a nickname to [syn: {dub}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "nickname": affectionate name, agnomen, appellation, appellative, baptize, byname, byword, call, christen, cognomen, define, denominate, denomination, designate, diminutive, dub, entitle, epithet, first name, handle, hypocoristic, identify, label, moniker, name, nominate, pet name, sobriquet, specify, style, tag, term, title
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