- a nickname
- an assumed name
Origin of sobriquet
French from Middle French soubriquet, chuck under the chin from uncertain or unknown; perhaps
noun
The definition of a sobriquet is an affectionate nickname.
An example of a sobriquet is a grandfather calling his grandson "pumpkin."
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sobriquet
also sou·bri·quet
noun
- An affectionate or humorous nickname.
- An assumed name.
Origin of sobriquet
French from Old French soubriquet chuck under the chinTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural sobriquets)
- A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person's given name).
- "The Bard" is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.
Origin
From French sobriquet (“nickname"), from Middle French soubriquet (“a chuck under the chin").
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Sentence Examples
- Him the sobriquet of "Soapy Sam."
- He was so handsome in person as to have earned the sobriquet of "the beauty of holiness."
- In person Douglas was conspicuously small, being hardly five feet in height, but his large head and massive chest and shoulders gave him the popular sobriquet " The Little Giant."
- Its somewhat gloomy aspect, enhanced by the tortuous narrow lanes flanked by gabled houses of the 15th century, has gained for it among countryfolk the sobriquet of the "Witches' nest" (Hexen-Nest).
- This princess, who was a great-granddaughter of the empress Maria Theresa, and a great-niece of Marie Antoinette, endeared herself to the people by her elevated character and indefatigable benevolence, while her beauty gained for her the sobriquet of "The Rose of Brabant"; she was also an accomplished artist and musician, and a fine horsewoman.
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WORDS NEAR sobriquet IN THE DICTIONARY
- sobriquet
- soboliferous
- sobornost
- sobre-vest