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nola

/noʊ.lə/

nola noun: a very small bell used in the choir during consecration.

Noun

nola

  1. A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Nola

Nola

  1. A town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy.
  2. Its bishopric.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Nola

Nola

  1. A female given name from Irish.
    • "What kind of name is Nola?"
      "My grandmother's," she said and sighed. "The kind of name no one ever just picks out."
      "Excuse me?"
      "You get named a name like Nola," she said. "Because of someone else. That someone else was my grandmother."2011, Bebe Wilde, The Weaker Sex, page 33
  2. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Arkansas, United States.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Nola

Nola (plural Nolas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Nola

Nola

  1. Alternative letter-case form of NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana).

Proper noun (5) capitalized: Nola

Nola

  1. The capital city of Sangha-Mbaéré prefecture, Central African Republic.

Proper noun (6) capitalized: NOLA

US/ˈnoʊ.lə/

NOLA

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of New Orleans, Louisiana.
    Synonyms:
    N.O., La., N.O., LA

nola meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

nola in Hindi

नोला

nola in Tamil

நோலா

nola in Marathi

नोला

nola in Urdu

نولا, نولہ
More languagesFewer languages
nola in Bengali
নোলা
nola in Telugu
నోలా
nola in Malayalam
നോള, നോല, നോലാ
nola in Kannada
ನೋಲಾ, ನೊಲಾ, ನೋಲ
nola in Punjabi
ਨੋਲਾ, ਨੌਲਾ
nola in Gujarati
નોલા
nola in Odia
ନୋଲା
nola in Nepali
नोला

Synonyms of nola

  • N.O., La.
  • N.O., LA

Forms of nola

pluralNolas
alternative formNola

Origin of nola

From Latin nola, traditionally derived from Nola in Italy, from its having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony, but possibly Onomatopoeic.

From Latin Nola.

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

Words that rhyme with nola

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Questions about nola

What does nola mean?
Nola means a very small bell used in the choir during consecration.
What is nola in Hindi?
Nola in Hindi is नोला. See Nola meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nola?
Nola can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce nola?
Nola is pronounced /noʊ.lə/ (US).

Words near nola in the dictionary

  1. nol-pros
  2. nol-prossed
  3. nol-prosses
  4. nol-prossing
  5. nol. pros.
  6. nola
  7. Nolan
  8. Nolan chart
  9. Nolan charts
  10. Nolan County
  11. Noland

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nola (page history and authors); Nola (page history and authors); NOLA (page history and authors); nola (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); nola (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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