Nikon

[ nee-kawn; Russian nyee-kuhn ]

noun

1. 1605–81, patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church 1652–66.

Example Sentences

My mum gave me her 1980s Nikon FE2 camera, which I learned all of the basics on.

From The Daily Beast

I had a Nikon DCS-620, which was one of their early models—a hybrid Kodak-Nikon camera—and I was using a 70-200mm zoom lens.

From The Daily Beast

I had been using the Nikon as a mental flak jacket and not a tool to record.

From The Daily Beast

Nikon fell a victim to Court intrigues and his own overweening pride, and was formally deposed.

From Project Gutenberg

But to the Russians of that time such notions were still more repulsive than the innovations of Nikon.

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All that had come in since Nikon and Peter was put under the ban by the champions of the ancient liturgy.

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Nikon was scarce content to be the equal of his sovereign, and ranked the church above the state: he fell.

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The mitres ranged with it were constructed by the directions of Nikon, and equal in richness and other details the royal crowns.

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