[
US
/ˈnɪkəɫəs, ˈnɪkɫəs/
]
NOUN
- a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)
How To Use Nicholas In A Sentence
- In America, gift giving at Christmastime began in the 17th century when early Dutch settlers introduced St. Nicholas to the New World. St.
- Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
- Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347 Publication Date List
- The three decades of Nicholas's rule came to be regarded as a particularly dark period of Russian history.
- Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre.
- The team from Nicholas and Co, of Malvern, completed the final tuning of the organ's 1,000 pipes, with the ‘tonal finishing’.
- Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. Nicholas Sparks
- People long ago produced fiendishly complicated analyses of visual forms: witness Nicholas of Cusa's tract on the all-seeing icon of Christ and Thomas Browne's labyrinthine meditation on the quincunx.
- Compare the following three texts — the previously-mentioned Passio sancti Pelagii by Hroswitha; Filius Getronis, a twelfth-century play of St. Nicholas from St. - Benoit-sur-Loire; and the tale of the snow child (a fabliau and several other retellings throughout the period). back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- Nicholas watched the lone plover for a moment before he said, `What the story tells me is that duty is not only familial. FLOATING CITY