| Noun | 1. | nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet"Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, aught, cypher, cipher - 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" | |