“The Bard” is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.
Source: wiktionary
Sobriquet
//ˈsoʊ.bɹɪ.keɪ//
Synonyms for "sobriquet" (16 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- прякор noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Czech
1 entries- přezdívka noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Dutch
1 entries- bijnaam noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Finnish
1 entries- lempinimi noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
French
2 entries- sobriquet noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- surnom familier noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Galician
4 entries- alcume noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- alcuño noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- estripote noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- lumiada noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
German
2 entries- Beiname noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- Spitzname noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Greek
1 entries- χαϊδευτικό noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Ido
1 entries- surnomacho noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Latvian
2 entries- iesauka noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- palama noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Macedonian
1 entries- пре́кар noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- لقب noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Polish
2 entries- przezwisko noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- przydomek noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Portuguese
1 entries- alcunha noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Russian
2 entries- про́звище noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- прозва́ние noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- frith-ainm noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nádimak noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
- на́димак noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Spanish
1 entries- sobrenombre noun (familiar name for a person or thing)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Tight quickly became a Jumeirah Jane—a sobriquet used as a caricature for non-working foreign women who live in Jumeirah, a posh part of the city, and spent their time driving kids to and from schools, shopping or meeting one another for lunch.
Source: wiktionary
The sobriquet of Johnny Appleseed attached to him, though his real name was Chapman, in consequence of his being ever engaged in gathering and planting appleseed and cultivating nurseries of apple trees.
Source: wiktionary
They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.