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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'nice' Resulted in 2 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 2 Definitions Nice proper noun  A city in southeast France on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, capital of the department of Alpes-Maritimes. Nice (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/) is also a family name found in the United Kingdom, U.S.A., and other western countries. Translations:  Dutch: Nice Dutch, Nice French: Nice German: Nizza Italian: Nizza Spanish: Niza       nice adjective (nic, er) Of a thing or person or event, pleasant, pretty: What a dress! Admirable, enviable: A third-term senator holds a level of seniority. Innocent; gentle; distinguished by perceived class or virtue: What is a person like you doing in a place like this? show, Showing or require, requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle a distinction neat; elegantly succinct: Fermat believed he had a proof of his theorem. Bordering on failure or disaster; succeeding by the narrowest of margins: "It has been a damned thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life" -- The Duke of Wellington shortly after the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. (colloquial) With "and", excellent, pleasing: The soup is and hot. Sometimes used sarcastically to mean the opposite or to connote excess. Translations:  Dutch: fijn, fijne French: bon , bonne German: super, schí¶n, wunderbar, toll, geil Italian: buono , buona Spanish: rico, bueno Etymology: Latin nescius = "not knowing".Original usage: "A nice distinction", meaning a distinction so subtle it would only be made by the ignorant. Similar in meaning to the phrase "a moot point". The illogical association of "nice" with good feelings probably arose from the loss of the original meaning and a false interpretation of the word's usage.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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