Nick

See also: nick

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophones: nic, nick
• Rhymes: -ɪk

Proper noun

Nick

1. A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
   • 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, pages 14–15:

     His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, 'Now, that's a real name.'

   • 2025 August 1, Ezra Klein, “Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 August 2025:

     You look at the groypers, you look at Nick Fuentes, you look at people who are by any measure white supremacists and people we would have called the kooky Nazi right, with their Pepe the Frog memes — they all felt very ill at home in Mitt Romney’s Republican Party.

Derived terms

• Nick & Nora
• Nixon
• Old Nick
• Saint Nick
• Young Nick's Head

Translations

Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼克 (zh) (Níkè)

• Esperanto: Niĉjo (eo)
• French: Nico (fr)
• Greek: Νίκος (el) (Níkos), Νικ (el) (Nik) (transliteration of English name)
• Romanian: Nicu m

Anagrams

• CKIN

Danish

Proper noun

Nick

1. a diminutive of the male given names Niklas or Nicolai

German

Proper noun

Nick

1. a diminutive of the male given name Nikolaus

Hungarian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnit͡sk]
• Hyphenation: Nick
• Rhymes: -it͡sk

Proper noun

Nick

1. a village in Vas County, Hungary

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Nick	—
accusative	Nicket	—
dative	Nicknek	—
instrumental	Nickkel	—
causal-final	Nickért	—
translative	Nickké	—
terminative	Nickig	—
essive-formal	Nickként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Nickben	—
superessive	Nicken	—
adessive	Nicknél	—
illative	Nickbe	—
sublative	Nickre	—
allative	Nickhez	—
elative	Nickből	—
delative	Nickről	—
ablative	Nicktől	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Nické	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Nickéi	—

Possessive forms of Nick

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Nickem	—
2nd person sing.	Nicked	—
3rd person sing.	Nicke	—
1st person plural	Nickünk	—
2nd person plural	Nicketek	—
3rd person plural	Nickük	—

Derived terms

• nicki