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Definition of "nil" []

  • Nothing; zero. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nil" in a sentence
  • "I warmed to the cover for a start, cocoa-eau-de-nil is my current favourite colour combination but I opened it and everything I've known all my life was immediately set out before me."
  • "The church of Ménil is a ruin, but the parsonage still stands – a plain little house at the end of the street; and here the curé received us, and led us into a room which he has turned into a chapel."
  • "Thus our word nil literally means "not even a wee little bit.""