► name the word that someone or something is called or known by: Her name was Lisa. What’s your name?
► nickname a name your friends and family use for you, not your real name: My name is Daniel, but my nickname is “Rabbit” because I had big ears when I was little.
► stage name the name an actor uses that is not his or her real name: Cary Grant was the stage name of Archibald Leach.
► pen name (also pseudonym formal) the name a writer uses that is not his or her real name: Charlotte Brontë wrote under a male pen name, because women were not accepted as writers.
► assumed name (also alias) a false name, often one used by a criminal: The couple registered at the hotel under an assumed name.
► title the name given to a book, story, play, etc.: The title of the movie is the same as the book.
► sobriquet formal a nickname or unofficial name. Used in literary writing: General Thomas Jackson gained his sobriquet, “Stonewall,” during the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War.