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MONIKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moniker mean? 

MONIKER (noun)
  The noun MONIKER has 1 sense:

1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)play

  Familiarity information: MONIKER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MONIKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

byname; cognomen; moniker; nickname; sobriquet; soubriquet

Context example:

Henry's nickname was Slim

Hypernyms ("moniker" is a kind of...):

appellation; appellative; denomination; designation (identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others)


 Context examples 


The moniker derives from the fact that a comparatively large part of the planets' composition consists of water, ammonia and methane, which are typically frozen as ices in the cold depths of the outer solar system.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)



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