noble
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”).
Displaced native Middle English athel, from Old English æþele.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnəʊbəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnoʊbəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊbəl
- Hyphenation: no‧ble
NounEdit
noble (plural nobles)
- An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. [from 14th c.]
- (historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. [from 14th c.]
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 93:
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
HyponymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:nobleman
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AdjectiveEdit
noble (comparative nobler or more noble, superlative noblest or most noble)
- Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
- Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- a noble edifice
- Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- noble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- noble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- noble at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble (masculine and feminine plural nobles)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
noble m or f (plural nobles)
Further readingEdit
- “noble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “noble”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “noble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “noble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin nōbilis according to the TLFi dictionary.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble (plural nobles)
- noble, aristocratic
- (of material) non-synthetic, natural; fine
- noble, worthy (thoughts, cause etc.)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
NounEdit
noble m or f by sense (plural nobles)
- noble (person who is noble)
ReferencesEdit
- Etymology and history of “noble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further readingEdit
- “noble”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble
- inflection of nobel:
Middle EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis.
AdjectiveEdit
noble
DescendantsEdit
- English: noble
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Latin nōbilis.
AdjectiveEdit
noble m or f (plural nobles)
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noble)
RomanianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble m or f or n (masculine plural nobli, feminine and neuter plural noble)
- Obsolete form of nobil.
DeclensionEdit
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble (plural nobles)
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Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “noble”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
noble