or noël′
- a Christmas carol
- [N-] Christmas
Origin of noel
from French noël from Old French nowel, nouel from Classical Latin natalis, natal
Celebrating a joyful Noel.
- Noel is the French word for Christmas.
An example of noel is Joyeux Noel on a Christmas card, meaning Merry Christmas in French.
- The definition of a noel is a Christmas song or carol.
An example of a noel is the song Oh, Christmas Tree.
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Noel
a masculine and feminine name
Origin of Noel
Old French Nouel, Noel, literally , natal: see noel: compare NatalieWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noel
also No·el
noun
- Christmas.
- noël also noel A Christmas carol.
Origin of Noel
Middle English noel from Old French variant of nael from Latin nātālis (diēs) (day) of birth from nātus past participle of nāscī to be born ; see genə- in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- Francois Noel Babeuf >>
- A selection from his statistical writings was published in 1885 under the editorship of Mr Noel Humphreys.
- What is clearly erroneous or faulty may as clearly be intended, and therefore not to be removed by the critic. In Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" (3455, 3457) astromie is used for astronomie, and Noe and Noel (Christmas) confused, "Nowelis flood" (345 1, 3457), because the speaker is an illiterate carpenter.
- Noel, Rabelais (1850); A.
- Thus, several French writers - notably, Tannery and Noel - regard them as dilemmas advanced, with some measure of success, in refutation of specific doctrines attributed to the Pythagoreans.
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