nickname
英['n?kne?m]
美['n?k'nem]
英英釋意
- 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"
- 2. a descriptive name for a place or thing;
- "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
