nickel silver

1. 1.

   a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel

   SynonymsGerman silver

   Broaderalloy

Questions about nickel silver

What does nickel silver mean?

nickel silver means "a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel".

What is another word for nickel silver?

Close synonyms include German silver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nickel silver a common word?

nickel silver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.