Hyphenation of nickname

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word nickname? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

nick-name

Definitions of nickname:

1.	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
2.	A descriptive name for a place or thing The nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
3.	Give a nickname to

Synonyms of nickname:

noun	moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
noun	name
verb	dub, name, call

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.