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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moniker
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Burke still goes under the moniker of "the king of rock and soul."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He's dropped the long-redundant Associates moniker and is standing alone, on his own merits.
▪ Phillips operates in 26 of those 37 states, with 7, 200 outlets carrying the Phillips moniker.
▪ So, in honor of their waiting, waiting, how about a more-fitting moniker?
▪ The parent company also will discard the Woolworth name for an undisclosed moniker later this year.
▪ What he said in 1 714, perhaps in jest, later gained acceptance as the perfect moniker for the marine timekeeper.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
moniker

monicker \monicker\, moniker \moniker\n. The name of a person, especially an alias or a nickname.

Syn: nickname, alias, sobriquet, cognomen.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moniker

1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery"). Its origins seem always to have been obscure:\n\nSir H. Rawlinson can decipher cuneiform, but can he tell us why "moniker"
--the word has a certain Coptic or Egyptian twang
--means a name painted on a trunk?

["The Saturday Review," Dec. 19, 1857]

Wiktionary
moniker

n. 1 A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute. 2 A signature. 3 (context computing English) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.

WordNet
moniker

n. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet]

Usage examples of "moniker".

Texas phenomenon of big-bigger-biggest, or whether it was the inevitable overcompensatory impulse of a founder who had been born with the moniker of Henry E.

Since it was the highly estimable Eastern Steamship Line running daily up the coast from Boston to Bangor, the brochure avoided such harsh terms in favor of the overblown moniker third-class lounge.

All monikers that came to police attention through arrests or shake cards - field interrogation reports - were fed into the computer program.

Oh, she told me an assortment of monikers that she collected in the way that the underside of a bed collects dust.

The others had an assortment of staggeringly annoying monikers that were impossible to keep straight: Hodge and Podge, Hoi and Paloi, Hither and Thither, Tutti and Fruitti, So On and So Forth, etc.