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In some senses, noel is marked as dated, literary, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noel
UK /nəʊˈɛl/ US /nəʊˈɛl/
name 6noun 2intj 1
Definitions
name
1
Christmas.
name
1
A male given name from French.
When Noel came, noisily bursting through the back door with buckets of cleansers and sponges, I introduced myself. "Just call me Noelle," he said of himself. "When I was little they used to call me Noel, Noel, the toilet bowl. Although now I have thought of painting that on the side of my van. It might be good for business? I don't know."
Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete abolition of the white race […] Note a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race category or to all white-skinned people.
2
A female given name from French.
3
A surname originating as a patronymic.
4
A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States.
5
A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun
1
Acronym of no observed effect level.
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