nod – English noun declension

English noun forms of nod

Noun: nod
Singularnod
Pluralnods

Sample Sentences

  • Much like Mirror Mirror, Huntsman appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937. [2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in AV Club:]
  • Early into Zootopia 2, a character celebrates how easy it was to teach everyone to “set aside their differences and solve bias and prejudice forever”—a winking nod towards the mixed reception of the first film’s themes. [2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club:]
  • For the fifth time in her career she received a Grammy nod, she has yet to win the award.
  • Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Really putting a damper on the ol' Tony nod. [2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)]
  • The plan is expected to get the nod from councillors at the next meeting.
  • Has the BRB received a secret nod from the Ministry to continue the LMR electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow? [1964 August, “News and Comment: One main line to Scotland?”, in Modern Railways, page 86:]
  • Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods. [1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:]

Etymology

From Middle English nodden, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hnodian (“to nod, shake the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnodōn, from Proto-Germanic *hnudōną (“to beat, rivet, pound, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *kendʰ-, from *ken- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Compare Old High German hnotōn (“to shake”), hnutten (“to shake, rattle, vibrate”) (> modern dialectal German notteln, nütteln (“to rock, move back and forth”)), Faroese njóða (“to clench a nail”), Icelandic hnjóða (“to rivet, clinch”), Faroese noða (“to double by bending”), Icelandic hnoða (“to clinch, rivet”). See: Old English Nouns '*hnodian', Faroese Nouns 'njóða', Icelandic Nouns 'hnjóða', Faroese Nouns 'noða', Icelandic Nouns 'hnoða'.