Nicholas

• Nicolas
• Nickolas, Nikolas (usually of non-English origin)

From Middle English Nicholas, from Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) +‎ λαός (laós, “people”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪk.ə.ləs/, /ˈnɪk.ləs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkələs, -ɪkləs
• Homophone: knickerless (non-rhotic)

Nicholas (countable and uncountable, plural Nicholases)

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek. Best known for St. Nicholas of Myre, on whom Father Christmas is based.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I'll give thee this neck.

   • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LIII, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book V, 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?

2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. An unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.
4. A settlement on Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

• Santa Claus

• halocins, lichanos

• Nicolas, Nicholaus

From Old French Nicholas, from Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnikɔlas/, /ˈnikɔlau̯s/

Nicholas

1. a male given name associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra.

• English: Nicholas
• Scots: Nicholas

• “Nicholas, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-30.

• Nicolas

From Latin Nīcolāus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos).

Nicholas

1. a male given name

• Middle English: Nicholas