Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word NOBLE

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Definitions of NOBLE

1. Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
2. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
3. Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
4. An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. [from 14th c.]
5. (historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. [from 14th c.]
6. (winemaking) Belonging to a class of grape cultivars traditionally considered most favorable for winemaking, usually encompassing the six: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay, and Riesling.
7. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.
8. A surname.
9. A male given name.
10. A number of places in USA:
11. (US) Initialism of National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

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Examples of Using NOBLE in a Sentence

• Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu ( – 18 February 814) was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law.
• It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from *Aþalfuns, composed of the elements aþal "noble" and funs "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as *Alafuns, *Adefuns and *Hildefuns.
• D'Abbadie was born a British subject, in Dublin, Ireland, from a partially Basque noble family of the French province of Soule.
• Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", the text features a prophecy rooted in Jewish history, as well as a portrayal of the end times that is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus.
• The House of Colonna, also known as Sciarrillo or Sciarra, is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility.
• The noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon) are also gases at STP, but they are monatomic.
• In Buddhism, dukkha is part of the first of the Four Noble Truths and one of the three marks of existence.
• Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by William Crossing rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.
• Son of Antonio Ximenes and Giulia Tolentino, a Sicilian noble woman, Ettore Ximenes initially embarked on literary studies but then took up sculpture and attended the courses at the Palermo Academy of Fine Arts.
• It is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table.
• Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces.
• Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507–1582), Spanish noble, general, and diplomat involved in the Eighty Years' War.
• The Knights of Labor (K of L), officially the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was an American labor federation that was active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s.
• According to tradition, every nine years the people of Athens were compelled by King Minos to choose fourteen young noble citizens (seven men and seven women) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the Minotaur in retribution for the death of Minos's son Androgeos.
• Born on 29 August 1891 in Sassari, Sardinia, Kingdom of Italy, Berlinguer descended from a noble Sardinian family of Catalan origins.
• The noble gases (historically the inert gases, sometimes referred to as aerogens) are the members of group 18 of the periodic table: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn) and, in some cases, oganesson (Og).
• A member of a noble Etruscan family, Otho was initially a friend and courtier of the young emperor Nero until he was effectively banished to the governorship of the remote province of Lusitania in 58 following his wife Poppaea Sabina's affair with Nero.
• The combination of Plzeň's remarkably soft water, local Saaz noble hops from nearby Žatec, low-protein Moravian barley malt prepared by indirectly heated kilning, and Bavarian-style lagering produced a clear, golden beer.
• Piero (also Perino, Pietro) Cybo Tomacelli was a descendant of Tamaso Cybo, who belonged to an influential noble family from Genoa and settled in Casarano in the Kingdom of Naples.
• Giulio Rospigliosi was born into the noble Rospigliosi family in 1600 and studied at the Seminario Romano and the University of Pisa.
• Guido di Castello, possibly the son of a local noble, Niccolo di Castello, was born either in Città di Castello, situated in Paterna Santa Felicità upon the Apennines, or at Macerata in the March of Ancona.
• Pope Urban was a native of France, and was a descendant of a noble family from the French commune of Châtillon-sur-Marne.
• The son of a Roman noble called Marinus, Stephen belonged to the same family which also produced the Popes Sergius II and Adrian II.
• Born to a noble family, Sergius was educated in the schola cantorum and ordained cardinal-priest of the Church of Sts.
• It is described in Buddhist commentaries as a noble character quality generally associated with enlightened beings.

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