Nicholas
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈnɪk.ə.ləs/, /ˈnɪk.ləs/
- A male given name. Best known for St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is based.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I'll give thee this neck.
- 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LIII, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829 ↗, book V (The Dead Hand), page 182 ↗:
- I must call you Nick—we always did call you young Nick when we knew you meant to marry the old widow. Some said you had a handsome family likeness to old Nick, but that was your mother's fault, calling you Nicholas. Aren't you glad to see me again?
- Surname
- French: Nicolas
- German: Nikolaus, Klaus
- Italian: Nicola, Niccolò
- Portuguese: Nicolau
- Russian: Никола́й
- Spanish: Nicolás
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