Moniker

Quick meaning: Moniker is a noun meaning A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

Meaning

A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

More Meanings

1. A person's signature.
2. (computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.

Example Sentences

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

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

Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path.

Recently, a class of reactions has gained tremendous attention in the chemistry community under the moniker of "click chemistry," a concept introduced by Kolb and colleagues.

Word Forms

• monikers
• monicker
• monniker

Synonyms for moniker

Depending on context, synonyms include byname, nickname, pseudonym, sobriquet, to-name, name.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, cognomen, surname, name.

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