nickel

Meaning of nickel

noun
  1. a silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 28.
  2. a five-cent coin; five cents.
    a button the size of a nickel
    we will see gasoline prices go up about a nickel
verb
  1. coat with nickel.
    it's far easier to copper an article than to nickel it

mid 18th century: shortening of German Kupfernickel, the copper-coloured ore from which nickel was first obtained, from Kupfer ‘copper’ + Nickel ‘demon’ (with reference to the ore's failure to yield copper).

Information about nickel

Hyphenation of nickel

nickel

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • nickel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

nickel synonyms

Meaning Ni:

Ni

Translation of nickel

Anagrams of nickel

nickle

Words that rhyme with nickel

cackel, Eckel, Haeckel, Seckel, deckel, seckel, teckel, Quickel, bombernickel, brickel, cupronickel, cyclopentadienylnickel, dichloronickel, dicyanonickel, dinickel, ferronickel, kupfernickel, mispickel, oxonickel, pickel, protonickel, pumpernickel, renickel, stickel, trinickel, Vowinckel, Winckel, Rockel, yockel, yuckel

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