Meaning

9 senses
  1. (uncountable)A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

    Nickel

    ни́кельníkelʹ

    нікельnikelʹ

  2. (Canada, US, countable)A coin worth 5 cents.

    моне́та в пять центовpjatʹ

    a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

  3. (US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable)Five dollars.

    five dollars worth of a drug

  4. (US, broadly, countable, slang, uncountable)Five hundred dollars.

  5. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the West Coast of the United States.

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)A playing card with the rank of five.

  7. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)A five-year prison sentence.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A defensive formation with five defensive backs, one of whom is a nickelback, instead of the more-common four.

  9. (UK, countable, uncountable)An airborne propaganda leaflet.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Do you have a nickel?

    У тебе є п'ять центів?

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  2. A nickel is a five-cent coin.

    deEin Nickel ist eine Fünfcentmünze.

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  3. This coin is made of nickel.

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  4. That painting isn't worth a nickel.

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  5. It's made of cobalt and nickel.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cron

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.

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Forms

plural: nickels
Singularnickel
Pluralnickels

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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 words

See also

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