/nɔɪz/
Translation
A loud or unpleasant sound.
Word origin
From Old French noise, meaning a quarrel or a din, probably from Latin nausea.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- noise
- English cognates
- noisy, nausea
Grammar
Examples
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A "noise" is a sound you usually do not want.
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"Noise" is countable when you mean one particular sound.
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With "much" it is uncountable, so there is no s.
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