noblenoun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Royalty, aristocracy & titles
accede to something
accession
anointed
anti-monarchical
anti-monarchist
duke
dukedom
earl
earldom
emir
miss
mister
monarch
monarchist
morganatic
royally
Rt. Hon.
Shah
sheikh
sire

Examples of nobleman

nobleman
Such as you are, you will soon find ten wealthy noblemen who will vie for the honour of making up for the absence of salary.
This is another dedicatory chanson, one that praises a nobleman whose heraldic colours are red and gold.
At the same time, educational reforms placed greater emphasis on training young noblemen for state bureaucratic service.
Spirited young noblemen defied tradition and rejected the formal sartorial trappings of their birth.
Archbishops still kept a public dinner table as noblemen once did.
He asks for consultation with the other noblemen before speaking, in order to reach mutual agreement.
The accounts of noblemen and religious institutions offer some idea of the way these wage labourers were contracted.
His solution was therefore a court of honour which would solve all the disputes of honour between noblemen and gentlemen.
Something in this young nobleman's noble act - it has since been not without a parallel among our aristocracy - silenced the tongue of gossip itself.
Even before the 1789 fire leading noblemen were exploring the possibility of establishing a new and better company in another theatre.
From the narrator's perspective, either the notification of a mournful event or a detailed description of the nobleman's death are beside the point.
Large landowners - such as sovereign lords, noblemen, monasteries and chapters - were almost entirely absent there : they held less than a fifth of the land.
Because of her moral character traits and perspicacity, the girl outsmarts the nobleman and escapes.
At this juncture the king was evincing interest in this particular issue not as the greatest among grand noblemen but as the absolute monarch.
By the mid-seventeenth century the patronage of classical music had become central to the notion of what it meant to be a mirza or nobleman.
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