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Перевод: sobriquet

[существительное]
прозвище; прозвание; кличка

Тезаурус:

1. "Peter", in fact, is not a name but a nickname, another sobriquet.
2. Fortunately some of the neighbours intervened, and it was they who invented the sobriquet.
3. One speaker was introduced with the sobriquet that his ambition "was never to become involved in Unix", a more general view being that it could no longer be ignored, even if little good might come of it!
4. MERE mention of the name Zeljko Raznjatovic, better known by his sobriquet, Arkan, is enough to send shivers down the spine of even the most battle-hardened Croatian fighter, writes Michael Montgomery in Belgrade.
5. Add in Edith Cresson's political affiliation, plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet "Edithatcher" seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger's fancy.
6. This sobriquet is a product of the sixteenth century.
7. The principle of inverse irreversibility is often known by its more colloquial sobriquet as the "Idiot child principle", in deference to the long observed tendency of mothers to love best their least-promising offspring.
8. As the sobriquet implies, this is principally used by booksellers for acquisition and as a finding list, but it is also used by some librarians for selection purposes.
9. The reason I called James Hunt "Master James", a sobriquet which his sponsors, Texaco, took up and plastered (without payment!) on billboards all over the country, was that he appeared to be exactly that, -a rather well-brought-up young man, properly educated, well-mannered (when I gave him the name, though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations!) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved.
10. It had appeared in Caxton's edition of Voragine's The Golden Legend (1483) and in Wycliffe's translation of about a hundred years before; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible, first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560.
11. They were an excitable, argumentative pair, and their habit of venting their frustrations in public earned them the sobriquet "Frisky and Bitchy".
12. But while the sobriquet of "Canaanite" might have meant something some two thousand years before, in Old Testament times, it makes no sense whatever in the context of the New Testament.
13. He loved his "Jocks" without a trace of condescension, and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy, his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of "Colonel Screwtop".