Čo znamená nickname v angličtine a aká je definícia nickname?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť nickname výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

nickname Význam & definícia

0 an informal name for someone or something, especially a name that you are called by your friends or family, usually based on your real name or your character:
- We always use the nickname Beth for our daughter Elizabeth.
- "Darwin" was the nickname he was given at high school, because of his interest in science.
1 to give someone or something a nickname:
- The campsite has been nicknamed "tent city" by visiting reporters.
- Because he always dressed in black, colleagues nicknamed him Dr Death.
2 an informal name for someone or sometimes something, used esp. to show affection, and often based on the person's name or a characteristic of the person

Do you have any nicknames?
As a child, he was given the nickname 'Brackets' because of his bandy legs.
We all had nicknames at school.
There is a modern office block next door, which locals have affectionately nicknamed the Beehive.
Someone has nicknamed her the Chameleon because she changes her dresses so often.
Sailors once nicknamed this coastal stretch, "The Graveyard of the Atlantic".
Informants were well aware of this danger ; one refused to use nicknames for superiors at all out of fear of this result.
Clearly this asser tion is only par t of the phenomenon of nicknames, as the above discussion reveals.