Definitions for nuisance
ˈnu səns, ˈnyu-nui·sance

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.3 / 4 votes

1. nuisancenoun

   (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive

2. pain, pain in the neck, nuisancenoun

   a bothersome annoying person

   "that kid is a terrible pain"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. nuisancenoun

   A minor annoyance or inconvenience.

2. nuisancenoun

   A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.

3. nuisancenoun

   Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

   a public nuisance

4. Etymology: From nusaunce, nussance etc., from nuisance, from nuisire (, from noceo)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nuisancenoun

   Etymology: nuisance, French.

   1. Something noxious or offensive.

   This is the liar’s lot, he is accounted a pest and a nuisance; a person marked out for infamy and scorn. Robert South, Serm.

   A wise man who does not assist with his counsels, a rich man with his charity, and a poor man with his labour, are perfect nuisances in a commonwealth. Jonathan Swift, Miscell.

   2. [In law.] Something that incommodes the neighbourhood.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nuisance

   Nuisance (from archaic nocence, through Fr. noisance, nuisance, from Lat. nocere, "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") or private. A public nuisance was defined by English scholar Sir James Fitzjames Stephen as, "an act not warranted by law, or an omission to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects". Private nuisance is the interference with the right of specific people. Nuisance is one of the oldest causes of action known to the common law, with cases framed in nuisance going back almost to the beginning of recorded case law. Nuisance signifies that the "right of quiet enjoyment" is being disrupted to such a degree that a tort is being committed.

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1. nuisance

   A nuisance refers to a person, thing or situation that causes annoyance, inconvenience, or discomfort. It can also refer to a harmful or offensive use of property that interferes with the legal rights of others, especially the right to enjoyment of their own property.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nuisancenoun

   that which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious

2. Etymology: [OE. noisance, OF. noisance, nuisance, fr. L. nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm; akin to necare to kill. Cf Necromancy, Nocent, Noxious, Pernicious.]

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1. Nuisance

   Nuisance is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public or private. A public nuisance was defined by English scholar Sir J. F. Stephen as, "an act not warranted by law, or an omission to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission obstructs or causes inconvenience or damage to the public in the exercise of rights common to all Her Majesty's subjects". Private nuisance is the interference with the right of specific people. Nuisance is one of the oldest causes of action known to the common law, with cases framed in nuisance going back almost to the beginning of recorded case law. Nuisance signifies that the "right of quiet enjoyment" is being disrupted to such a degree that a tort is being committed.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nuisance

   nū′sans, n. that which annoys or hurts: that which troubles: that which is offensive.—n. Nū′isancer. [Fr.,—L. nocēre, to hurt.]

Matched Categories

1. • Annoyance
   • Law
   • Unpleasant Person

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nuisance' in Nouns Frequency: #2914

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nuisance in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nuisance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of nuisance in a Sentence

1. Shean Williams:

   They allowed a nuisance to occur at the property, they were on notice of that nuisance — the danger, the hazards that persisted with vigilantes being on the property.

2. D. W. Brogan:

   For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

3. Dorothy L. Sayers:

   A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

4. Frank Sinatra Bono:

   These are some of the songs that saved My Life, the ones I couldn't have lived without... the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60... through all the scrapes, all manner of nuisance, from the serious to the silly... and the joy, mostly joy.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, …Journal, 1860:

   The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nuisance
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nuisance
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=nuisance
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuisance
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nuisance
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=nuisance