Noel

专有名词
/nəʊˈɛl/   

英文释义

专有名词
  1. Christmas. dated,literary
  2. 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."
  3. A female given name from French.
  4. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  5. A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States.
  6. A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English Nowel, borrowed from Old French Noel (“Christmas”), from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birth[day of the Lord]”). Doublet of nada, natal, Natal, and née.
词源 2
* (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.
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