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Noel
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noel NOEL Nóel noël Noël Nô-el
English
Alternative forms
en Noël noël noel Noyal
Etymology 1
en ine-pro *ǵenh₁-
From en enm Nowel, borrowed from en fro Noel Christmas, from en la natalis nātālis [diēs Dominī] birth[day of the Lord]. en nada natal Natal née.
Pronunciation
nōel' RP, en /nəʊˈɛl/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Noel.wav Southern England
en ɛl 2
en No el
Proper noun
en literary or old-fashioned Christmas.
Translations
(literary or old-fashioned) Christmas
Indonesian: id Natal
Irish: ga Nollaig f
Japanese: ja ノエル noeru
Russian: ru Рождество́ n
Turkish: tr Noel
Welsh: cy Nadolig
Etymology 2
en ine-pro *ǵenh₁-
names From Noel in the sense of Christmas; given since Middle Ages to children born at Christmastide.
city in Missouri Named for brothers Clark Wallace and William Jasper Noel, stockmen and owners of a sawmill.
community of Nova Scotia, Canada Named after its most prominent resident, Noël Doiron.
Pronunciation
nō'(ə)l RP, en /ˈnəʊ(ə)l/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Noel2.wav Southern England
en əʊl 2
Proper noun
en male French.
en 2009 w:Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs Faber and Faber 978-0-571-24946-6 162 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."
en Wade Miller Policy Brief: The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice w:Center for Renewing America https://americarenewing.com/issues/policy-brief-the-great-replacement-in-theory-and-practice/ 2024-04-11 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20240804024025/https://americarenewing.com/issues/policy-brief-the-great-replacement-in-theory-and-practice/
en female French.
en patronymics.
en city co/McDonald County s/Missouri c/USA.
en Christmas City
en comm mun:suf/East Hants co/Hants County p/Nova Scotia c/Canada.
Derived terms
en Noel Park
Related terms
en Noele Noela Noeleen Noelle Noëlle
Translations
male given name
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: arz نويل m Nowēl
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 諾埃爾 Nuòāi'ěr
French: fr Noël
Irish: ga Nollaig
Persian: fa نوئل no'el
Swedish: sv Noel
Anagrams
en elno lone Leno leno neol. Léon one L Nole Leon nole Elno elon enol Elon León
en unisex given names
en Christmas
en heteronyms
Cebuano
Etymology
The given name is from ceb en Noel.
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb male English < Latin
ceb
Quotations
ceb
Finnish
Etymology
From fi fr Noël.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi male
Declension
0 Noel a
Statistics
dvv_20250813 4089 961 155 25 24
Ladino
Etymology
From lad tr Noel, from lad fr Noël.
Proper noun
Christmas
Middle English
Proper noun
enm proper noun 1
enm Nowel
Old French
Alternative forms
fro Naël Nohel Noiel Nouel Nowel
Etymology
From fro la natālis of or relating to birth.
Noun
m
Christmas
Descendants
enm Nowel 1, en Noel
en Noel Noël noel noël nowel nowell
frm Noël
fr Noël noël
sv Noel
tr Noel
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
mfbysense
es
en Noel
Swedish
Etymology
From sv en Noel and sv fr Noël. In general use among Swedish-speakers since about 2000.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Noel.wav
Proper noun
c
sv male
References
Statistiska centralbyrån : 3552 males with the given name Noel living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the highest frequency so far in 2010 . Accessed on 17 September 2011.
Anagrams
sv elno Leon
Turkish
Etymology
tr :bor fr:Noël + 1
Pronunciation
tr /noˈæ̯l/
Proper noun
Christmas (Christian holiday)
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from vi fr Noël.
Proper noun
vi proper noun
vi Nô-el