Sobriquet
Sobriquet, a nickname or a fancy name, usually a familiar name given by others as distinct from a pseudonym assumed as a disguise.
Well-known sobriquets
- Walt Whitman - "The Good Gray Poet"
- Rome - "The Eternal City"; "The Whore of Babylon"
- Lord Byron - "The Wicked Lord Byron"
- Simon Bolivar - "El Libertador"
- King Louis XIV - "The Sun King"
- Abraham Lincoln - "The Great Emancipator", "Honest Abe"
- Babe Ruth - "The Sultan of Swat"
- University - "Alma Mater"
- The United Kingdom - "Perfidious Albion"
- London - Londonistan
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