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say it: NIK-uh-luhs
nicholas is a noun meaning "a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)". It is pronounced /ˈnɪkələs/ — NIK-uh-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nicholas come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.