noel

name

1. (dated, literary)Christmas.
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."”

   “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.”

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.

noun

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of no observed effect level.
2. A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.

   “The first Nowell the Angel did say / Was to three poor Shepherds in the fields as they lay[…]”

intj

1. (archaic)A wish or expression of commemoration of Christmas.

   “And may all my enemies go to hell! / Noël! Noël! Noël! Noël!”