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noble | American Dictionary

noble
adjective
us/ˈnoʊ·bəl/

nobleadjective (MORAL)

having or showing high moral qualities or character:
It was a noble effort to achieve a peaceful settlement to the conflict.

nobleadjective (HIGH RANK)

[ not gradable ]
having a high social rank, esp. from birth:
a noble family related to the queen
noble
noun[ C ]
us/ˈnoʊ·bəl/

noblenoun[C] (PERSON OF HIGH RANK)

a person of high social rank, esp. from birth

Examples of noble

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He succeeded in forcing several thousand nobles into service by threatening them with loss of status and land.
There had been many minor challenges, from earlier emperors, and from the popes, and from local bishops and nobles.
Moreover, the nobles, grateful for such consideration, tended to perform their newly acquired duties with honesty and zeal, and sometimes for free.
To embellish building was once the noblest function of the fine arts; they were the indispensable components of great architecture.
His argument certainly establishes the right of the nobles to repress the monarch, but he does not emphasise the duty to revolt.
He purged those city-state rulers whose loyalty he could not trust, and in cer tain cases he replaced them with other, loyal nobles.
Rulers, wanting to maintain the support of the nobles, attempted to divide power and create new positions.
Meanwhile, the state granted tracts of land to nobles or permitted them to purchase land in what had become the old borderlands.
To those who have, it is one of the noblest lessons of nature.
Rather, the increased penalization of violence targeted the nobles and aimed at strengthening the city's penal jurisdiction in the countryside.
One problem continued to be the lack of adequate training in and an aversion to higher mathematics on the part of the sons of nobles.
He was clearly thinking of aristocratic, feudal and militaristic regimes, in which nobles kept retinues of armed men, flunkeys and attendants.
The lesser nobles could be dominated by the magnates, but they were also capable of going their own way.
The festivities lasted four days and were attended by the royal embassy and various nobles and prelates from near and far.
Their choices challenged ' the immobility of tradition ' as much as did the first alterations in the dress of young nobles three centuries previously.
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