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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Synonym of cheap: Low price and/or low value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated, idiomatic, not-comparable
Synonyms: sixpenny, tinhorn, two a penny, bargainous, brand X, budget, cheap, cheapie, cheapo, cheesy, competitive, economic, economical, el cheapo, inexpensive, low-cost, low-end, low-priced, nickel, unexpensive
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name
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A coin worth 5 cents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable
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Synonyms: jitney
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noun
Five dollars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Five hundred dollars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel
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noun
A playing card with the rank of five
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A five-year prison sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
An airborne propaganda leaflet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: World War II
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verb
To plate with nickel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Qualifier: World War II
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noun
a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coin
noun
five dollars worth of a drug
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: nickel note
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fiver, five-spot, five dollar bill
noun
a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Ni, atomic number 28
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
verb
plate with nickel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plate
History
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.
Across languages
135 source translations are retained for this English entry.
