COGNOMEN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: cognomina

Meaning:

The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

Synonyms:

cognomen; family name; last name; surname

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognomen"):

maiden name (a woman's surname before marriage)

Meaning:

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

Example:

Henry's nickname was Slim

Synonyms:

byname; cognomen; moniker; nickname; sobriquet; soubriquet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cognomen" 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)