Meaning

noun sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

verb emit a noise

noun the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

originFrom Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense. Potentially a reduced form of Old French enoiier (“to bother, to…

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