Usually means: Nickname, often affectionate or humorous.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word sobriquet:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sobriquet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sobriquet: Merriam-Webster
  3. sobriquet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sobriquet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sobriquet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sobriquet: Vocabulary.com
  7. sobriquet: Wordnik
  8. sobriquet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sobriquet: Wiktionary
  10. sobriquet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sobriquet (soubriquet): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sobriquet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sobriquet: Dictionary.com
  14. sobriquet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sobriquet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sobriquet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sobriquet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sobriquet: Rhymezone
  19. Sobriquet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sobriquet: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sobriquet: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. sobriquet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sobriquet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Sobriquet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sobriquet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sobriquet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sobriquet: A Word A Day
  2. sobriquet: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A familiar name for a person or thing; a nickname (sometimes assumed by the person, but often given by others), that is descriptive.

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