NICHOLAS

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• NICHOLAS (noun)
  The noun NICHOLAS has 1 sense:

1. a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)

  Familiarity information: NICHOLAS used as a noun is very rare.

• NICHOLAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Nicholas; Saint Nicholas; St. Nicholas

Instance hypernyms:

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

 Context examples 

The research team, led by drug delivery pioneer Nicholas Peppas, conducted the study over four years at UT's Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery & Regenerative Medicine.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

Nicholas Strausfeld of the University of Arizona teamed up with other researchers to better understand how the reniform bodies connect to other parts of the mantis shrimp brain.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

"Normally the dust would fall down in a day or so," said the paper's lead author, Nicholas Heavens of Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

What would the gentles Sir Nicholas Boarhunte, or Sir Bernard Brocas, of Roche Court, say if they saw such a thing—or, perhaps, even the King's own Majesty himself, who often has ridden past this way, and who loves his falcons as he loves his sons?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having been condemned, by nature and fortune, to active and restless life, in two months after my return, I again left my native country, and took shipping in the Downs, on the 20th day of June, 1702, in the Adventure, Captain John Nicholas, a Cornish man, commander, bound for Surat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)