nihil

1. 1.

   (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)

   “nihil habet”

   Broadernothing

   Latin

Other forms of nihil

plural

nihils·

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.

Questions about nihil

What does nihil mean?

nihil means "(Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)".

How many syllables are in nihil?

nihil has 2 syllables: ni-hil. The stress falls on "ni".

Is nihil a common word?

nihil 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.