nose – English noun declension

English noun forms of nose

Noun: nose
Singularnose
Pluralnoses

Sample Sentences

  • She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
  • The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…]. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
  • We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff. [1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:]
  • Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water. [1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:]
  • Red Rum only won by a nose.
  • Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant. [2014 March 4, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master. [c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy:]
  • It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
  • A successful tabloid reporter has a nose for gossip.
  • I got to know one or two other girls who wrote, and they told me that my sort of stuff would be all right when I got into the peerage or became a leading lady, but if I wanted to live meanwhile it was absolutely necessary to cultivate a "news-nose". [1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:]
  • They had a nose around the abandoned property.
  • […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […] [1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
2. See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”). See: Middle English Nouns 'nose', Old English Nouns 'nosu', Dutch Nouns 'neus', Swedish Nouns 'nos', German Nouns 'Nase', Swedish Nouns 'näsa', Danish Nouns 'næse', Latin Nouns 'nāris', Russian Nouns 'нос'.

Verbs referencing "nose"

German Nouns Nase, Russian Nouns нос, Finnish Nouns noussi, Latvian Nouns nāss.