Definition & Meaning | English word NOTT

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Definitions of NOTT

1. (obsolete) Bald.
2. (nowUKdialect, Newfoundland) Of an animal: having no horns; polled.
3. (obsolete) To shear.
4. A surname.
5. (after a qualification) University of Nottingham, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate

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Examples of Using NOTT in a Sentence

• In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century, Nótt is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Nörvi (with variant spellings) and is associated with the horse Hrímfaxi, while the Prose Edda features information about Nótt's ancestry, including her three marriages.
• She was baptised Eugenie Victoria Helena at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, by Peter Nott, Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990.
• Nott was born in 1782, near Neath in Wales, the second son of Charles Nott, a Herefordshire farmer of Welsh background, who in 1794 became an innkeeper of the Ivy Bush Inn at Carmarthen in Wales.
• A 1528 satire, Rede Me and Be Nott Wrothe, contained the lines, “Yf they saye the mone is belewe / We must beleve that it is true.
• During the latter stages of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1841–1842), Hasan Ali Shah and his cavalry officers provided assistance to General Nott in Kandahar Province and to General England in his advance from Sindh to join Nott.
• During the Marian persecutions of the 1550s, Bishop Ferrar of St David's was burnt at the stake in the market square – now Nott Square.
• Swire married Alexandra (Sasha) Nott, the daughter of Sir John Nott (former Conservative Secretary of State for Defence, whose tenure included the Falklands War) in December 1996 in Kensington.
• Eliphalet Nott, the president of Union College, was an inventor of stoves and a boiler; he held 31 patents.
• 6 gun, which would have been replaced by the Exocet anti-ship missile, as well as the addition of the Sea Wolf missile, but the 1981 Defence Review by the defence minister John Nott, cancelled the modernisation for Ariadne and other Batch III Leander-class frigates.
• In 1812, the ABCFM sent its first missionaries – Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson; Samuel and Roxana Peck Nott; Samuel and Harriet Newell; Gordon Hall, and Luther Rice—to British India.
• Born in Bideford, Devon, the son of Richard Nott and Phyllis (née Francis), Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles (1952–1956).
• Old Ladies Home – Site for residents of the Home for the Friendless, a charity set up by Urania Nott, wife of Eliphalet Nott, the first President of Union College.
• Freedom and Unity: A Graphic Guide to Civics and Democracy in Vermont (2022) by Dan Nott, with James Sturm, Susan Clark, Kit Anderson, and Glynnis Fawkes.
• Rosaline was the daughter of the singer and actress Cicely Nott and the sister of three other actresses, including Ada Blanche, a well-known pantomime star.
• Other theatre-makers to come out of the Market Theatre through the guidance of Barney Simon and Mannie Mannim include: Paul Slabolespzy, Janice Honeyman, Vanessa Cooke, Gcina Mhlope, Lara Foot, Clare Stopford, Malcolm Purkey, Andrew Buckland, Sue Pam-Grant, Pieter Dirk Uys, Neil McCarthy, Maishe Maponya, Robert Whitehead, Percy Mtwa, Reza de Wet, Mbongeni Ngema, Fiona Ramsay, Ramaloah Makhene, Robert Colman, Robyn Orlin, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Lucille Gillwald, Thoko Ntshinga, Jennie Rezenk, Fatima Dike, Craig Higginson, Sello Maake Ka Ncube, Wilson Dunster, Yael Farber, Nicky Rebelo, Irene Stephanou, Mark Fleishman, Megan Wilson, Jacqui Singer, Motshabi Tyelele, Terry Norton, Dorothy Ann Gould, Arthur Molepho, Sandra Prinsloo, Leila Henriques, Martin Le Maitre, James Whyle, Lesly Nott, Seputla Sebogedi,Bobby Heaney, Timmy Kwebulana, Dawid Minaar, Charles J Fourie, Marius Weyers and many more.
• Nott and George Gliddon in their monumental tribute to Morton's work, Types of Mankind (1854), carried Morton's ideas further and backed up his findings which supported the notion of polygenism – the premise that the different races were separately created by God.
• Among his siblings were brothers Howard Potter, a New York City banker, Robert Brown Potter, a General in the American Civil War (to whom he gifted a house known as "The Rocks" in Newport, Rhode Island), Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect who designed the Nott Memorial at Union College, Henry Codman Potter, who succeeded Horatio Potter as Bishop of New York in 1887, Eliphalet Nott Potter, who served as President of Union College and Hobart College, and William Appleton Potter (1842–1909), also an architect who designed the Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey.
• Howard Potter, an attorney and banker; Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect who designed the Nott Memorial at Union College; Henry Codman Potter, who succeeded Horatio Potter as Bishop of New York in 1887; Eliphalet Nott Potter, an Episcopal priest and president of Hobart College; Maria Louisa Thompson, the wife of sculptor Launt Thompson; James Neilson Potter, a businessman; William Appleton Potter, an architect who designed the Church of the Presidents in Elberon, New Jersey, and Frank Hunter Potter, a journalist who was the choirmaster of the Cathedral of St.
• Naurr, Nörr (dative Naurvi, Nörvi): "Vafþrúðnismál" 25 "Nótt var Naurvi borin", "Alvíssmál" 29 "Nótt in Naurvi kennda".
• Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included David Owen, John Nott, Michael Heseltine, Jack Ashley, Donald Dewar, Gwyneth Dunwoody, John Pardoe, David Winnick, Gerry Fitt and Andrew Faulds.
• The Quartet has commissioned many contemporary composers including Errolynn Wallen, Isidora Zebeljan, Elena Virsova, Andrea Tarodi, Theo Verbey, Javier Alvarez, John Tavener, Andrew Ford, Julian Nott and George Grundmann, and championed new work from composers such as Mario Lavista, Osvaldo Golijov and Peter Sculthorpe.
• Some significant WAFL players that have played at the North Albany Football Club include Ron Boucher (Swan Districts & WA), Peter Stephen (East Fremantle & WA), Stuart Hillier (West Perth & WA), Ray Nott (Claremont & WA), Doug Roberts (Claremont) and Matt Orzel (Claremont).
• Andreas Boyde gave the European premiere of Four Parables in 1998 with the Dresdner Sinfoniker and Jonathan Nott, a live performance which was issued on the Athene Records label in 1999.
• It originated in about 1829 from cross-breeding of Southdowns with the Old Hampshire breed, the Wiltshire Horn and the Berkshire Nott, all horned, white-faced sheep — these were native to the open, untilled, hilly stretch of land known as the Hampshire Downs.
• Nott unwillingly dispatched a brigade under Brigadier MacLaren but it was turned back by heavy snowfalls.
• In 1360 Walter Nott, parson of the church of Michelmersh, reserved a messuage and 2 carucates in Dibden from a grant of land which he made to Romsey Abbey.
• Morton's followers, particularly Nott and George Gliddon (1809–1857) in their monumental tribute to Morton's work, Types of Mankind (1854), carried Morton's ideas further and claimed and backed up his findings, which supported the notion of polygenism, which claims that humanity originates from different ancestral lineages and is the ancestor of the multiregional hypothesis.

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