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Definitions
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Word origin
From by- + name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.
Used in a sentence
“Lions-heart, is... the by-name of K. Richard.”
“Some of these by-names... remained many years after to them, and theirs; amongst which Plantagenist was entailed on the Royal bloud of England.”
“Eutropius... gives him the additional name of Crinitus, perhaps a by-name of his family.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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