Dream Dictionary

Nickname

To hear a nickname in your dream, represents your feelings and memories of the person who is referred to by that nickname.

If the nickname is not familiar, then it may be a pun on something or a metaphor.

To dream that someone is calling you by a nickname, suggests that you are trying to change they way you and others see you.

Dictionary definition

  • n. 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
  • 2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
  • v. 1: give a nickname to [syn: dub, nickname]