nickel

CEFRC1

/ˈnɪk.əl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A US coin worth five cents.

  2. 02

    noun

    A hard silver-colored metal.

Examples

  • I just found a nickel in the street.

  • A nickel is a five-cent coin.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A coin worth 5 cents.

  2. Five dollars.

  3. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.

More examples

In context

  • Nickel is a hard, silver-white metal.

  • Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.

  • That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.