Nicolai

[ nik-uh-lahy; German nee-koh-lah-ee ]

/ ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ; German ˌni koʊˈlɑ i /

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noun

(Carl) Ot·to (Eh·ren·fried)

[kahrl awt-oh ey-ruhn-freet], /kɑrl ˈɔt oʊ ˈeɪ rənˌfrit/, 1810–49, German composer.

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Nicobarese, Nicobar Islands, Nicodemus, niçoise, niçoise olive, Nicolai, Nicolay, Nicole, Nicolet, Nicolette, Nicolle

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How to use Nicolai in a sentence

What Nicolai is interested in is time and movement, both of which are present in so much of his art.
Carsten Nicolai’s Skydiving Dance|Jimmy So|September 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In photographs taken from a distance, the works of German artist Carsten Nicolai look cold, calculated, and removed.
Carsten Nicolai’s Skydiving Dance|Jimmy So|September 24, 2011|DAILY BEAST
"You see the mote in your brother's eye, but not the beam in your own," said Nicolai Egeland, appropriately.
Skipper Worse|Alexander Lange Kielland
Nicolai says Sterne is called with justice One of the most refined, ingenious and humorous authors of our time.
Laurence Sterne in Germany|Harvey Waterman Thayer

There certainly is no ground for the charge that Fichte attacked Nicolai when he was too old to reply.
Notes and Queries, Number 241, June 10, 1854|Various
In Nicolai Lenin the political chief of Russias millions, we may well find a menace, for his figure looms over the world.
The Behavior of Crowds|Everett Dean Martin
Will the reader consent to their Dialogue, which is dullish, but singular to have in an authentic form, with Nicolai as voucher?
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for Nicolai

Nicolai

/ (German nikoˈlaɪ) /

noun

Carl Otto Ehrenfried (karl ˈɔto ˈeːrənfriːt). 1810–49, German composer: noted for his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849)

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