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Definition: Nice |
NiceAdjective1. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today". 2. Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl". 3. Done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot". 4. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow". 5. Noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument". 6. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture". Noun1. A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Nice \Nice\, adjective. [Comparative Nicer; superlative Nicest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | NICE The Nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Nice The Council of Nice. The first oecumencial council of the Christian Church, held under Constantine the Great at Nice, or Nicæa, in Asia Minor, to condemn the Arian heresy (325). The seventh oecumenical council was also held at Nice (787). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Vietnamese (xi.n). (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Nasty, Nice. Nasty is a strong adjective, and should be used only in reference to what is offensively filthy, foul, or defiled. Such expressions as a nasty day, a nasty rain, mark a loose and careless use of the word. The word nice once meant foolish, ignorant, weak, effeminate. It has now come to mean exact, fine, finished, exciting admiration on account of skill or exactness; as nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice distinction in philosophy. It is loosely and colloquially used in application to what is pleasing, agreeable, delightful, good. A bright young lady was once asked, "Don't you think nice is a nasty word?" She replied, "And do you think nasty is a nice word." The subject was abruptly changed. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Nice (SAMPA and IPA pronunciation: [ni:s] as in "niece"; Italian Nizza, Provençal Niça or Nissa) is a city in Southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Cannes and Monaco. It is the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Alpes-Maritimes département.The city is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera - Côte d'Azur.
History
Nice (Nicaea) was founded about two thousand years ago by the Phocaeans of Marseille, and received the name of Nikaia in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the goddess of victory). It soon became one of the busiest trading stations on the Ligurian coast; but as a city it had an important rival in the town of Cemenelum, which continued to exist till the time of the Lombard invasions, and has left its ruins at Cimiez, which is now a quater of Nice.
In the 7th century Nice joined the Genoese league formed by the towns of Liguria. In 729 it repulsed the Saracens; but in 859 and 880 they pillaged and burned it, and for the most of the 10th century remained masters of the surrounding country.
During the middle ages Nice had its share in the wars and disasters of Italy. As an ally of Pisa it was the enemy of Genoa, and both the king of France and the emperor endeavoured to subjugate it; but in spite of all it maintained its municipal liberties. In the course of the 13th and 14th centuries it fell more than once into the hands of the counts of Provence; and at length in 1388 it placed itself under the protection of the counts of Savoy.
The maritime strength of Nice now rapidly increased till it was able to cope with the Barbary pirates; the fortifications were largely extended and the roads to the city improved. During the struggle between Francis I. and Charles V great damage was caused by the passage of the armies invading Provence; pestilence and famine raged in the city for several years. It was in Nice that the two monarchs in 1538 concluded, through the mediation of Pope Paul III, a truce of ten years.
In 1543 Nice was attacked by the united forces of Francis I and Barbarossa; and, though the inhabitants, repulsed the assault which succeeded the terrible bombardment, they were ultimately compelled to surrender, and Barbarossa was allowed to pillage the city and to carry off 2,500 captives. Pestilence appeared again in 1550 and 1580.
In 1600 Nice was taken by the duke of Guise. By opening the ports of the countship to all nations, and proclaiming full freedom of trade, Charles Emmanuel in 1626 gave a great stimulus to the commerce of the city, whose noble families took part in its mercantile enterprises. Captured by Catinat in 1691, Nice was restored to Savoy in 1696; but it was again besieged by the French in 1705, and in the following year its citadel and ramparts were demolished.
The treaty of Utrecht in 1713 once more gave the city back to Savoy; and in the peaceful years which followed the "new town" was built. From 1744 till the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) the French and Spaniards were again in possession. In 1775 the king of Sardinia destroyed all that remained of the ancient liberties of the commune. Conquered in 1792 by the armies of the French Republic, the county of Nice continued to be part of France till 1814; but after that date it reverted to Sardinia.
By a treaty concluded in 1860 between the Sardinian king and Napoleon III it was again transferred to France, and the cession was ratified by over 25,000 electors out of a total of 30,700.
In the second half of the 20th century, Nice bore the influence of mayor Jean Médecin (mayor from 1947 to [1965]]) and his son Jacques (mayor from 1966 to 1990). As the accusations of political corruption grew, Jacques Médecin flew France in 1990 and was arrested in Uruguay in 1993, leading to his extradition in 1994. He was then convicted of several counts of corruption and associated crimes and sentenced to prison.
Jacques Peyrat, the mayor of Nice since 1995 is a member of the UMP party and former member of the Front National.
In 2003, local head prosecutor Éric de Montgolfier, alleged that some judicial cases involving local personalities had been suspiciously derailed by the local judiciary, which he suspect of having unhealthy contacts, through Masonic lodges, with the very people that they are supposed to prosecute or judge. A controversial official report stated that de Montgolfier had made unwarranted accusations.
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The city is served by Côte d' Azur International Airport.
See also
Nice (pronounced Niece) is also a variety of biscuit.
- Nice Observatory
- Sainte Jeanne d'Arc Church (Nice, France)
The Nice (pronounced Nighse) was a 1960s rock band. nice (pronounced Nighse) is a command found on POSIX like Operating Systems like ( Linux, BSD ). It directly maps to a Kernel command of the same name. For a given Computer process, it changes the priority in the kernel's scheduler Nice (pronounced Nighse) is the 2003 album from Japanese Pop duo, Puffy.
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Nice is an advanced object-oriented programming language. It extends the concept of object-orientation by allowing multi-methods, that can be declared even for existing classes, and who select their implementation based on all their arguments.Nice has a more powerful system than most object-oriented languages, which allows for instance to detect during compilation all null dereferencing errors, and most casting errors.
Source programs are compiled to Java bytecodes, and can interact with libraries written in Java.
Nice also implements contracts, similarly to Eiffel, and incorporates many features from functional programming, like anonymous functions, tuples, and parametric types.
External link
- Nice website
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Nice is a town located in Lake County, California. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,509.Geography
Nice is located at 39°7'36" North, 122°51'1" West (39.126774, -122.850256)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.7 km² (2.2 mi²). 5.7 km² (2.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,509 people, 1,142 households, and 649 families residing in the town. The population density is 438.3/km² (1,134.3/mi²). There are 1,672 housing units at an average density of 292.1/km² (755.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 87.29% White, 2.15% African American, 4.90% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.24% Pacific Islander, 1.83% from other races, and 3.15% from two or more races. 8.65% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,142 households out of which 22.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.1% are married couples living together, 13.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 43.1% are non-families. 35.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.18 and the average family size is 2.79. In the town the population is spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 97.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $24,340, and the median income for a family is $28,358. Males have a median income of $29,444 versus $18,725 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,173. 25.4% of the population and 16.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 43.3% are under the age of 18 and 5.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nice, California."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NICE | Danish | Systematisk opstilling of brancher inden for industri og anden fremstillingsvirksomhed i De europaeiske Faellesskaber | Finance |
NICE | English | Network of Information,Communication,Entertainment and Education | N/A |
NICE | French | Nomenclature des Industries établies dans les Communautés européennes | Finance |
NICE | Italian | Nomenclatura delle Industrie nelle Comunità Europee | Finance |
NICE | Spanish | Nomenclatura de las industrias establecidas en las Comunidades europeas | N/A |
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Synonyms: NiceSynonyms: courteous (adj), dainty (adj), decent (adj), discriminate (adj), gracious (adj), overnice (adj), prissy (adj), skillful (adj), squeamish (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: nce (transportation). |
| Antonym: nasty (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difference | Nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination; differentia. |
Difficulty | Nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle; (riddle); paradox; hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick, |
Discrimination | Noun: discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation; nicety, refinement; taste; critique, judgment; tact; discernment; (intelligence); acuteness, penetration; nuances. |
Adjective: discriminating; Verb: dioristic, discriminative, distinctive; nice. | |
Fastidiousness | Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical. |
Inexpedience | Good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior; above par; nice, fine; genuine; (true). |
Pain | Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual. |
Probity | Conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike. |
Proficient | Nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye, experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer, funambulist, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror; (deceiver); wizard. |
Savoriness | Adjective: savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good, palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful, appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful. |
Truth | Exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so; strict, severe; close; (similar); literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous; (conscientious); religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Nice little town, Albany (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) I'd like to eat her liver with some farver beans and a nice bottle of Chianti (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) One more time would be nice. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Weird is nice. (City of Angels; writing credit: Dana Stevens. Based on the screenplay for the 1997 film 'Der Himmel über Berlin') | |
Lyrics | And I'm possessive, it isn't nice (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) The party was nice, the party was pumpin' (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) I forgot how nice romance is (The Longest Time; performing artist: Billy Joel) Lets take it nice n slow (Before I Let You Go; performing artist: Blackstreet) That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) | |
Clever | I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. (references; author: Mark Twain) Money is nice, yet nice is worth more. (references; author: unknown) If you can't say something nice, become a reporter. (references; author: unknown) Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. (references; author: unknown) The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Another Nice Mess (1972) What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (1971) A Nice Girl Like Me (1969) Ours Is a Nice House (1969) Nice Time (1968) | |
Song Titles | Wouldn't It Be Nice (performing artist: The Beach Boys) Nice to Be With You (performing artist: Gallery) Nice Jewish Wedding in New Orleans (performing artist: Honey Would You Be Meshuga Tonite?) I'm Nice (performing artist: Wally Pleasant) Nice Old Man (performing artist: The Residents) | |
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 | Nice, France, from Mont Boron. Credit: CDC. |  | Lieutenant Bortniak at the controls. Already growing a nice set of whiskers. Exploring the wreck of a Hercules C-130 at the end of the runway. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | California pier angling - happy lady with a nice croaker catch. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Family of anglers with nice Pacific halibut. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Dr. Morgan Wells, former NOAA Dive Prog. Dir., Jim Miller and Jean Jaubert, a French biologist from the Laboratory of General Biology, Nice, France. (r-l). Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 37. Falconetti and Vaissiere turning net devised by Raymond Vaissiere and Claude Falconetti of the University of Nice in 1972. Top: the equipment. Bottom: in operating position. This net was designed to capture plankton and the larvae of benthic species at a small distance off the bottom. It was able to stay under water for prolonged periods and easy to use. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Mr. L.C. Smith, 75 yr. old black farmer has nice herd of mixed breed beef cattle. Credit: USDA. |  | African American farmer, Ms. Willy Fraiser and her son show their nice herd of mixed breed beef cattle to County Agent James Minor in Jones County, MS. Credit: USDA. |
 | A nice mountian vew over the canyon of the Parashant Naitonal Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |  | A wonderful view of the Parashant National Monument with a nice overveiw of the canyon. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain. |
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| "Nice tubes" by Jerry Zee Commentary: "Yellow tubes which delivered cold air for air conditioning into a bank during construction." | "Just a nice car..." by Denis LaPointe Commentary: "On a nice summer day this car was sitting there and I shot it..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Addison Walker | It's not true that nice guys finish last -- Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. |
Andrel Gromyko | Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth. |
Henry Kissinger | The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. |
Iris Murdoch | I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. |
John Dryden | Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. |
Martial | You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. |
Phyllis Diller | Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. |
Thomas Fuller | Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. |
William James | It is nice to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by "circumstances beyond your control" from ever trying to execute them. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This power, whilst employed for the benefit of the community, and suitably to the trust and ends of the government, is undoubted prerogative, and never is questioned: for the people are very seldom or never scrupulous or nice in the point; they are far from examining prerogative, whilst it is in any tolerable degree employed for the use it was meant, that is, for the good of the people, and not manifestly against it: but if there comes to be a question between the executive power and the people, about a thing claimed as a prerogative; the tendency of the exercise of such prerogative to the good or hurt of the people, will easily decide that question. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | We must not be nice and ask for all the virtues into the bargain |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | And at the other end there was a nice roasted Lamb |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Nice girl |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | I think I showed you round them once, hmmm? Nice brickwork |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Their prosperity scatters its crumbs to those who are behind the scenes, in the shape of nice little promotions |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | That was not a nice expression |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He was a nice fella |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I have too great a veneration for crowned heads to dwell any longer on so nice a subject |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Sweden has adopted the Nice International Classification System for registration purposes. (references) | |
To date, NICE has only examined one rehabilitation device – hip prostheses – and has issued a positive ruling. (references) | ||
Established in April 1999, NICE is the U.K. technology assessment program that judges the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of new and existing devices used by the NHS, and provides the NHS with guidance on treatment strategy. (references) | ||
Economic History | France | Other cities--Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nice, Bordeaux. (references) |
Monaco | It is located on the Mediterranean coast, 18 kilometers (11 mi.) east of Nice, France, and is surrounded on three sides by France. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | Slovakia is a successor to conventions signed by the former Czechoslovakia, e.g., the Bern, Paris, Stockholm, Madrid, Nice, Lisbon, Locarno, Washington, Strasbourg, and Budapest conventions. (references) | |
Political Economy | DENMARK | Trademarks: Denmark is a party to the 1957 Nice Arrangement and to this arrangement's 1967 revision. (references) |
Ireland | At the same time, the Ahern government has suffered some political setbacks in the first half of 2001. The rejection by referendum of the EU's binding Nice Treaty reflected poorly on the government, as it failed to get out the vote or answer concerns about the pace and direction of EU integration. (references) | |
Ireland | It is possible that voter cynicism over the major parties' handling of the Nice Treaty, which they all supported, as well as the cynicism created by the ongoing corruption investigations, may lead to increased support in the next general election for smaller, "outsider" parties, such as the Greens or Sinn Fein. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Indian food - nice buffet. (references) |
Ghana | Excellent French food and wines, nice ambience. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Andy Rooney | Let me begin tonight by saying, as nice and sweet as I know how, that I thought last Tuesday's debate between Al Gore and George Bush stank. It was about as exciting as synchronized swimming at the Olympics. |
Ann Richards | Well, I knew that it was a nice place to come. But it is so much more to that, than that. Somebody said to me the other day, New York is a nice place to live but not a good place to visit. |
Dennis Miller | Tebbi, the nice man in the New York Yankees turban, told us it'll be ready in the year Pi. |
Don Imus | See I'm not like, I'm not like David Letterman. He's a very nice guy I'm sure. But remember that woman who used to break in his house all the time. |
Joe Esposito | Graceland. Place he always to bought it for his mother. That was very important to him. Beautiful place. Nice place. He loved being there. |
Julie Andrews | Pretty nice. Pretty nice. They were both two of the handsomest fellows and the most charming fellows, and I didn't know which way to look they were both so gorgeous. |
Martha Stewart | We're not deserting. We don't have plans to desert K-mart. But we are in talks with the new chairman, a very nice man called Jim Adamson. And we are very close to the company and we are working with them to help them, actually. |
Rod Steiger | Israel has been very nice to me. They invited me back for the three thousandth birthday of Jerusalem. |
Rosemary Clooney | Sure, wonderful singer. Anyway Billie and Tony were really close friends so when I met her, she kind of made that association and was a very good friend of mine and was nice to me. And so she is my first daughter's godmother. |
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| "Nice" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.23% of the time. "Nice" is used about 13,172 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.23% | 12,676 | 728 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.76% | 495 | 12,127 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13,172 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nice" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nice | Last name | 1,000 | 10,039 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Israel | Nice Systems Ltd. | Japan | Nice Claup Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Nice, CA (CDP, FIPS 51294) |
Expressions using "nice": a nice bit of money ♦ a nice guy ♦ a nice peace of crumpet ♦ a nice piece of handiwork ♦ a nice thing indeed! ♦ a nice way to talk! ♦ as nice as pie ♦ awfully nice ♦ be in a nice pickle ♦ be nice ♦ get into a nice mess ♦ have a nice day! ♦ have a nice journey! ♦ have a nice trip ♦ he is even nice ♦ he's not very nice ♦ it is nice ♦ it's so nice of you! ♦ look nice ♦ nice about his food ♦ nice and ♦ nice and cool ♦ nice and easy ♦ nice and sweet ♦ nice and warm ♦ nice child ♦ nice day ♦ nice distinction ♦ nice ear for music ♦ nice judgement ♦ nice little town ♦ nice man ♦ nice people ♦ nice person ♦ nice pickle ♦ nice point ♦ nice question ♦ nice thing ♦ taste nice ♦ To make nice of ♦ turn a nice dime ♦ turn a nice dollar ♦ turn a nice penny ♦ you are a nice fellow!. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nice": nice-but-dim, nice-ear, nice-girl, nice-like, nice-looking, nice-looking girl, nice-looking young man, nice-minded, Nice-pak, nice-quiet-guy-who-lives-next-door, nice-sized, nice-smelling, nice-to-have, nice-to-know. | |
Ending with "nice": look-nice, naughty-but-nice, n-nice, not-nice, not-quite-nice, over-nice, probably-nice. | |
Containing "nice": Have-a-nice-day. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nice ass | 2,259 | nice thong | 115 |
nice france | 2,233 | nice france hotel | 99 |
nice | 1,881 | nice woman | 97 |
nice people | 984 | nice ass pic | 95 |
nice tit | 872 | nice booty | 93 |
nice butt | 757 | nice babe | 92 |
nice girl | 590 | naughty or nice | 88 |
kick nice | 558 | nice picture | 85 |
nice car | 556 | matin nice | 85 |
nice hotel | 470 | nice slow | 82 |
nice leg | 406 | have a nice day | 73 |
nice boob | 373 | foot nice | 73 |
nice pussy | 322 | hotel in nice | 72 |
kicks.com nice | 303 | nice guy finish last | 72 |
nice rack | 288 | nice pic | 63 |
nice breast | 256 | nice nipples | 62 |
have a nice day cafe | 253 | nice house | 62 |
alexandra nice | 185 | brice de nice | 61 |
mr nice | 161 | nice guy | 60 |
nice body | 153 | buns nice | 59 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "nice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lekker (agreeable, agreeably, comfortably, enjoyable, good, lovely, pleasant, pleasantly), smaaklik (tasty), heerlik (agreeable, delicious, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant), goed (fine, good, OK, okay, things, well), gaaf (fine, good, okay, very, very well), aangenaam (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant), behaaglik (agreeable, comfortable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant, pleasing). (various references) | |
Albanian | tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), mirë (alright, decently, good, myrrh, nicely, ok, okay, okey, securely, well), i sjellshëm (amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, courtly, delicate, discreet, fair-spoken, gallant, genteel, good, kind, kindly, mannerly, polite, suave, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, pleasant, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i lezetshëm (agreeable, comely, cool, delicious, delightful, handsome, ingratiatingly, jolly, pretty), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, keen, liny, meager, meagre, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy), i hijshëm (becoming, charming, comely, cool, dainty, decent, decorous, delicate, delicious, distinguished, elegant, graceful, jimp, personable), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, pinup, pleasant, pretty), goxha (good, lovely, pretty, quite a lot, rather, well), fin (delicate, refined). (various references) | |
Arabic | جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nearness, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious), ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry), ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), رفيع التهذيب (exquisite), أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly), جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), عَذْب (fresh, pleasant), صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, outrageous, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), حلو (honey, lovely, sensational, silky, sugary, sweet), ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), قريب إلي النفس, لذيذ (dainty, delectable, delicious, delightful, flavorful, flavourful, good, palatable, pleasant, sapid, savory, sweet, sympathetic, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, unique, yummy), لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), مليح (beautiful, handsome, pleasant, pretty), اللطيف (dove, kind). (various references) | |
Basque | polit. (various references) | |
Breton | gaer (very nice). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | акуратен (accurate), добър (benign, fair, good, good natured, kind, kindly, lucky, plummy, pretty, round, savoury, sound, tenderhearted, useful, warmhearted, well), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, polished, polite, precise, recherche, refined, tasteful, urbane, well-rounded), изящен (artistic, artistical, bijou, delicate, delicious, distinguished, minikin, neat, peachy, svelte, sylph-like), подробен (circumstantial, close, comprehensive, depth, detailed, disquisitional, elaborate, explicit, narrow, particular), порядъчен (considerable, orderly, respectable, sober, steady, straightforward, tidy, upright, well-regulated), придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish), приличен (chaste, done, presentable, seemly), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), деликатен (considerate, delicate, fastidious, fine, fragile, pernickety, prickly, slender, slippery, slippy, soft, tender, thoughtful, ticklish), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), симпатичен (amiable, cute, nice-looking, prepossessing, regular, sympathetic), мил (agreeable, amiable, benign, comfortable, cute, darling, dear, engaging, genial, good, kind, likable, likeable, lovable, mil, sweet), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), взискателен (choosey, exact, exacting, exigent, fastidious, rigorous, strict), внимателен (affable, alert, attentive, careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, delicate, guarded, heedful, intent, precautious, scrupulous, thoughtful, ware, wary, watchful), грижлив (attentive, careful, fatherly, mindful, regardful, solicitous, tender, thorough, thoughtful, tidy), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, neat, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), фин (dainty, delicate, distinguished, exquisite, fine, recherche, refined, sheer), чувствителен (apprehensive, fastidious, feeling, hair-trigger, high strung, impressionable, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references) | |
Catalan | ric (tasty), bon (good, okay), agradable (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant). (various references) | |
Chinese | 好 (a-ok, a-okay, fine, fined, finely, Fining, GOOD, goodly, ok, Okay), 和藹 (amiable, kindly), 可親 (amiable, kindly). (various references) | |
Croatian | lijepu. (various references) | |
Czech | hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, handsome, nice-looking, personable, pretty). (various references) | |
Danish | god (good, okay), behagelig (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant). (various references) | |
Dutch | leuk (amusing, entertaining, fine, fun, funny, glad), lekker (alluring, attractive, enticing, tasty, tempting), aangenaam (agreeable, agreeably, comfortably, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant, pleasantly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bongusta (tasty), boneta, bona (good, okay), amabla (dainty, kind, pretty), agrabla (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant). (various references) | |
Estonian | kena. (various references) | |
Faeroese | smakkgóður (tasty), góður (beloved, dear, expensive, good, lovely, okay, valuable), fittligur (agreeable, enjoyable, lovely, pleasant). (various references) | |
Farsi | مودب (Courteous, Courtly, Debonair, Decorous, Housebroken, Mannerly, Respectful, Suave, Unselfish, Urbane), مطلوب (Desirable, Favorite, Idealistic, Lief), نجیب (Bland, Decent, Genteel, Gentle, Meek, Noble), نازنین , خوب (Fine, Good, Okay, Pretty, Super, Well), دلپسند (Exquisite), دلپذیر (Amiable, Graceful, Gracious, Handsome, Kindly, Lief, Lovely, Luscious, Mellow, Melodious, Palatable, Scrumptious). (various references) | |
Finnish | Nizza, soma (cute, dainty, neat, pretty, sweet), sievoinen (handsome), mukava (comfortable, convenient, handy, pleasant), mie |
