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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#m1)

2) Making a nuisance of yourself means bothering people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x1)
- The flies were a real nuisance at the picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x2)
- Stop making a nuisance of yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x3)
- The barking dog is a nuisance to the neighbours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x4)
- We get lots of nuisance calls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x5)
- Rain is a nuisance on sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x6)
- What a nuisance that I have to go to school! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/#x7)

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [Friction can be a helper or a nuisance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nuisance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nuisance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.