"pet name" meaning in English

See pet name in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pet names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pet name (plural pet names)
  1. A nickname, especially a name used by those in love with one another. Categories (topical): Onomastics Synonyms: hypocorism, nickname Translations (name of endearment): ὑποκόρισμα (hupokórisma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), ὑποκοριστικόν (hupokoristikón) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), 愛稱 /爱称 (àichēng) (Chinese Mandarin), 昵稱 (nìchēng) (Chinese Mandarin), 小名 (xiǎomíng) (Chinese Mandarin), kælenavn [neuter] (Danish), koosnaam [masculine] (Dutch), troetelnaam [masculine] (Dutch), vleinaam [masculine] (Dutch), lempinimi (Finnish), kutsumanimi (Finnish), petit nom [masculine] (French), საალერსო სახელი (saalerso saxeli) (Georgian), კნინობითი სახელი (ḳninobiti saxeli) (Georgian), Kosename [masculine] (German), Lallname [masculine] (German), 愛称 (aishō) (alt: あいしょう) (Japanese), ペットネーム (pettonēmu) (Japanese), нагалено име (nagaleno ime) [neuter] (Macedonian), nama timang-timangan (Malay), nama manja (Malay), kallenavn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kjælenavn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kallenamn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kjælenamn [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ласка́тельное и́мя (laskátelʹnoje ímja) [neuter] (Russian), уменьши́тельное и́мя (umenʹšítelʹnoje ímja) [feminine] (Russian), smeknamn [neuter] (Swedish)
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  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pet, name.
    Sense id: en-pet_name-en-noun-xljeuZr7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: pet form

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.