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.
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(dated, literary) Christmas.
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ga Nollaig ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas) · tr Noel ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas) · ja ノエル ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas) · ru Рождество́ ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas) · cy Nadolig ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas) · id Natal ((literary or old-fashioned) Christmas)
* (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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A male given name from French.
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. 2024 April 11, Wade Miller, “Policy Brief: The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice”, in Center for Renewing America, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2024:
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." 2009, Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 162:
A female given name from French.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States.
A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
cmn 諾埃爾 /诺埃尔 (male given name) · fr Noël (male given name) · ga Nollaig (male given name) · fa نوئل (male given name) · sv Noel (male given name) · arz نويل (male given name)