Associations to the word «Nils»

Wiktionary

NIL, noun. Nothing; zero.
NIL DESPERANDUM, interjection. Do not despair.

Dictionary definition

NIL, noun. A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.