nuisance

«nuisance» in Mova's school dictionary: a person, animal or thing that annoys you or causes trouble — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a nuisance, nuisances)

meaning for a pupil

1) A nuisance is a person, animal or thing that annoys you or causes trouble. tree →

2) Making a nuisance of yourself means bothering people. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, flies, noise, rubbish and nuisance phone calls are common nuisances. In law, a nuisance is something that unfairly disturbs neighbours. Phrases: "what a nuisance!", "make a nuisance of yourself", "nuisance calls".

examples

• What a nuisance, I've lost my pencil again! tree →
• The flies were a real nuisance at the picnic. tree →
• Stop making a nuisance of yourself. tree →
• The barking dog is a nuisance to the neighbours. tree →
• We get lots of nuisance calls. tree →
• Rain is a nuisance on sports day. tree →
• What a nuisance that I have to go to school! tree →

note

Countable. Spelling: nui-sance (with "ui"). Pronounced NYOO-sense.

In the corpora

• Friction can be a helper or a nuisance.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «nuisance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.