cognomens

variants or cognomina
plural of cognomen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cognomens
Noun
  • Armani’s mother Maria played a great role in his life and influenced his sense of fashion to the point that his two yachts bore her nicknames, Mariu and Maìn.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Laurel, Conrad, Belly, and Jeremiah all call each other by nicknames.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most, if not all, Democrats are expected to sign on to his Epstein files petition, meaning only six Republicans would need to cross party lines to add their names.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Major indexes fell, dragged down by declines in Big Tech names.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then there was the woman who was Speaker of the House and would walk around talking to herself, screaming out epithets to imaginary people.
    Larry David, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Terrell represented a Black teenager who’d been expelled from a Los Angeles high school for punching a white referee during a football game after the referee allegedly had directed racial epithets at him.
    Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ronaldo is one of just nine players to have won the competition five times or more (only counting those who played in winning finals) and is the only one of these men with his titles split across clubs.
    Will Jeanes, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to publishing a range of podcasts, the Pushkin network includes a healthy menu of audiobook titles.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lily, Loki, Max, Star, Oscar, Zelda, Pepper, Callie, Gus, Kitty, Olive, Olivia, Jack and Chloe, are among the other popular monikers.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Which of the following monikers did Benjamin Franklin NOT employ?
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Many younger Red Sox weren’t in the majors, or even drafted in ‘19, the last time the league allowed players to replace their surnames with nicknames on the back of their Players’ Weekend jerseys.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the searches involved criminal cases in the New York City area and other jurisdictions and cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames, according to The New York Times.
    Jenna Sundel Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other designations include Tunis for Libya, Abidjan for Niger, Guangzhou for North Korea, and Warsaw, Almaty (IR-5), or Tashkent (IR-5) for Russia.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Other South American countries such as Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguay issued similar designations in the following days.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Cognomens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cognomens. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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