Meaning
9 senses(uncountable)A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
Nickel
ни́кельníkelʹ
нікельnikelʹ
(Canada, US, countable)A coin worth 5 cents.
моне́та в пять центовpjatʹ
a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
(US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable)Five dollars.
five dollars worth of a drug
(US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable)Five hundred dollars.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable)Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the West Coast of the United States.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A playing card with the rank of five.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable)A five-year prison sentence.
(countable, uncountable)A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.
(UK, countable, uncountable)An airborne propaganda leaflet.
Examples
25 sentencesDo you have a nickel?
У тебе є п'ять центів?
A nickel is a five-cent coin.
deEin Nickel ist eine Fünfcentmünze.
This coin is made of nickel.
That painting isn't worth a nickel.
It's made of cobalt and nickel.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. CronBorrowed 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.
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Forms
plural: nickelsSynonyms
4 synonyms- five dollars worth of a drug:nickel note
- a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite:Niatomic number 28
Word family
50 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable