NOUN
- the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
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a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
Henry's nickname was Slim
Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
How To Use cognomen In A Sentence
- The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident. Vergil
- Under the temporary pressure of pecuniary liabilities, contracted with a view to their immediate liquidation, but remaining unliquidated through a combination of circumstances, I have been under the necessity of assuming a garb from which my natural instincts recoil — I allude to spectacles — and possessing myself of a cognomen, to which I can establish no legitimate pretensions. David Copperfield
- Therefore, when spear was spelt "spere," the cognomen should be spelt "Shakespere"; when spear was spelt "speare," as it was in the sixteenth century, the name should be spelt "Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Family
- One of the new owners bears the cognomen of Mark and, as many people know, the Thai phrase that sounds a lot like ‘mark, mark’ means ‘much’ or ‘a lot of’.
- Justices of the United States of America, all save one, and yet some there be, and their name is not meagre, who hold and maintain that the aforesaid vacant frame lacks a suitable head in the chiefest of the justiciaries of the antecedent high - sounding cognomen. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
- Her patronymic should follow in the next two lines, consisting of her father's gentilicium and Greek cognomen.
- At Suetonius mira constantia medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloni� non insigne, sed copia negociatorum & commeatu maxime celebre. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
- A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books.
- It didn't last long under that cognomen and now goes by the less enticing Pan Nice Lady Bar.