note Synonyms & Antonyms

Note in a Sentence

I left him a note to remind him to take out the trash.

a promissory note

a note of hand

a negotiable note

I didn't have any coins to pay with, so I used a note.

a poet of note

Your performance was fantastic! I have just one note: you were a little flat in bars 35 and 36.

If you look to the left, you can note the old cathedral.

Note the difference between progesterone and progrestogen: the former is simply a type of the latter.

We noted his speech.

The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x.

The modular multiplicative inverse of x may be noted x-1.

… instructors had noted that he did not perform well under pressure.

The detective noted the details of the witness's account of the robbery.

The commendation notes the bravery of the firefighter.

Records fail to note what became of him.

a note of sadness

end on a high note

a figure of international note

took full note of the proceedings

I'd like to note that I don't care for that tone of voice

a waitress hurriedly noting our orders

note the artist's rendering of the trees, how their leaves seem to dance in the wind

the lecturer noted several sources where listeners could go for further information

please note that the office will be closed tomorrow

I'll make a note to myself so I don't forget to pick up some milk on the way home

write a friendly note to the neighbors asking them to keep the noise down

can you distinguish between the notes of the whippoorwill and the mockingbird?

will you be paying in coins or notes?

spoke with a note of irritation in her voice

a writer of note among readers of modern poetry

let me read a few notes I jotted down while you were auditioning

during my long convalescence I had taken note of which friends had helped me and which ones had found other things to do

an intense, full-bodied red wine with all of the spicy notes for which that grape variety is famous

a note of sadness / end on a high note

Word Forms & Grammar

not·ed

not·ing

not·er noun

note

noted

noter

noters

notes

noting

note (countable and uncountable, plural notes)

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)

note (usually uncountable, plural notes)

Words That Rhyme With Note

Origin of Note

Origin 1: Middle English, from Anglo-French noter, from Latin notare to mark, note, from nota

Origin 2: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin nota mark, character, written note

Origin 3: From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).

Origin 4: From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.

First Known Use

13th century

14th century