Moniker

//ˈmɑn.ɪ.kɚ//

Synonyms for "moniker" (46 found)

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Related word relations

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Translations

33 translations across 18 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • прякор noun (personal name or nickname)

Catalan

3 entries
  • malnom noun (personal name or nickname)
  • renom noun (personal name or nickname)
  • sobrenom noun (personal name or nickname)

Czech

1 entries
  • přezdívka noun (personal name or nickname)

Dutch

1 entries
  • bijnaam noun (personal name or nickname)

Finnish

3 entries
  • lempinimi noun (personal name or nickname)
  • liikanimi noun (personal name or nickname)
  • lisänimi noun (personal name or nickname)

French

2 entries
  • appellation noun (personal name or nickname)
  • sobriquet noun (personal name or nickname)

Galician

2 entries
  • alcume noun (personal name or nickname)
  • alcuño noun (personal name or nickname)

German

2 entries
  • Name noun (personal name or nickname)
  • Spitzname noun (personal name or nickname)

Greek

1 entries
  • παρατσούκλι noun (personal name or nickname)

Icelandic

3 entries
  • heiti noun (personal name or nickname)
  • nafn noun (personal name or nickname)
  • viðurnefni noun (personal name or nickname)

Māori

1 entries
  • ingoa kārangaranga noun (personal name or nickname)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • لقب noun (personal name or nickname)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • alcunha noun (personal name or nickname)
  • apelido noun (personal name or nickname)

Russian

1 entries
  • про́звище noun (personal name or nickname)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • frith-ainm noun (personal name or nickname)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • nadimak noun (personal name or nickname)
  • pridjevak noun (personal name or nickname)
  • prišvarak noun (personal name or nickname)

Spanish

2 entries
  • apodo noun (personal name or nickname)
  • mote noun (personal name or nickname)

Turkish

3 entries
  • lakap noun (personal name or nickname)
  • mahlas noun (personal name or nickname)
  • takma ad noun (personal name or nickname)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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Isabelle was known by the moniker “Bell.”

Source: tatoeba (10063906)

It’s not precisely clear why a 16th-century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus, who historically gets the credit for America’s discovery. VOA’s Ardita Dunellari reports Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map has been called America’s birth certificate as the first geographic document to apply the moniker.

Source: tatoeba (12223996)

The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker.

Source: wiktionary

Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the (imagined) childhood of a particular vagrant.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.