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nouveau riche: nouveau riche, new money
nouveau réalisme: nouveau réalisme (art movement founded in Europe in 1960)
nouveau venu: newcomer, new arrival, new kid on the block, outsider
nouveau-né: newborn
nouveau-né: newborn
nouveauté: a specific thing that is new; newness; novelty
nouveautés: plural of nouveauté; news, what's new; The latest fashions.
nouvel homme: a new man
nouvelle: news, a piece of information; novella, short story
nouvelle donne: new situation
nouvelle lune: new moon
nouvelle vague: new wave, nouvelle vague
nouvellement: newly, recently
nouvelles: news
nouvelles technologies: new technologies; digital technologies
nouvelliste: novelist
nov.: abbreviation of novembre (“November”): Nov
nova: nova
novateur: innovative
novateur: an innovator
novation: novation
novembre: November
nover: to novate
novice: beginner, novice
novice: inexperienced
noviciat: novitiate
novlangue: Newspeak (fictional language); newspeak (use of ambiguous, misleading, or euphemistic words)
novocaïne: novocaine
novotestamentaire: neo-testamentary, New Testament
novénaire: novenarius
novénaire: novenary
noyade: drowning
noyau: stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit); group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.); core; nucleus; kernel
noyau atomique: atomic nucleus
noyau dur: hard core
noyau terrestre: Earth's core
noyautage: infiltration
noyauter: to infiltrate
noyer: walnut (tree)
noyer: to drown; to drown oneself; to drown; to dilute; to water down
noyer du Brésil: brazil nut (tree)
noyer le poisson: to elude a question, to kick into touch, to muddy the waters, to cloud the issue, to duck the issue, to confuse
noyer son chagrin: to drown one's sorrows
noyeraie: walnut orchard
noétique: noetic
noël: A Christmas gift.; A Christmas song.; The melody of a Christmas song.
noëlien: Christmas
noëlleux: Christmassy
nu: naked; nude; bare
nu: nude
nu: nu (Greek letter)
nu comme un ver: stark naked; naked as a jaybird
nu-tête: bareheaded
nuage: cloud
nuage de Magellan: A Magellanic Cloud. A member of the Magellanic Clouds.
nuage noir: dark cloud
nuage électronique: electron cloud
nuage-mur: wall cloud
nuager: to cover with clouds
nuageusement: cloudily