"Nickelodeon" was originally coined in the United States in the 1880s as a term for a theatre or other place of amusement where the admission fee was five cents (colloquially known as "a nickel"). In the first decade of the twentieth century the term came to be commonly applied to cinemas showing films for a fee of five cents.
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In the 1930s the term was used to refer to a pianola or a jukebox which could be operated by inserting a nickel.
Nickelodeon is an American pay television channel with the same-name spinoffs:
- Paramount International Networks § Nickelodeon, listing channels around the world, including
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio, the channel's animation arm
- Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids, a former TV channel
- Nickelodeon Magazine , a children's magazine
- Nickelodeon Movies, a motion picture production company
- Nickelodeon Studios, a former television studio
- Nickelodeon Universe, an amusement park
Nickelodeon may also refer to:
