noble
impressive in appearance
How often you will meet it
Rank 723 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 26,032 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.012% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- impressive in appearance also: baronial, imposing, stately a baronial mansionan imposing residence
- of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times of noble birth
- having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character a noble spiritnoble deeds
- inert especially toward oxygen a noble gas such as helium or neonnoble metals include gold and silver and platinum
noun
- a titled peer of the realm also: Lord, nobleman
noble in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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You found a noble, powerful, and wealthy family.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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From the school Custos--"Titchy"--a noble supply of stationery was procured.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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Pursue your noble wishes, I am prompt As lightning to your service.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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The noble Hystaspes has said, that I am able to prove your brother innocent.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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We bow as in the dust, with all our pride Of virtue dwarfed the noble deed beside.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1