NOBLE
What does "NOBLE" mean?
Having or showing high moral qualities, dignity, or fineness of character.
Meanings
- Possessing admirable moral principles and ideals. It was a noble gesture to give up his seat for the exhausted stranger.
- Belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political rank. She descended from an old noble family with a crumbling estate.
- Impressive in appearance, grand or stately. A noble oak stood at the centre of the village green.
- Chemically inert; resistant to reaction (of gases or metals). Helium and the other noble gases almost never form compounds. technical
- A person of aristocratic birth or rank. The nobles gathered in the great hall to hear the king's decree.
Did you know?
- Chemistry borrowed the social metaphor directly: helium, neon, and argon are 'noble gases' because, like aloof aristocrats, they hold themselves apart and almost never react with other elements.
Word origin
From Old French 'noble', from Latin '(g)nobilis' meaning well-known or noteworthy, from the root 'gnoscere' (to know) - the same root behind 'know' and 'notable'.
Remember it
NOBLE shares its Latin root with 'know' - a noble was originally simply someone well-known, the notable sort.
A little poem
No crown, no banner, no estate-
he stooped to lift the fallen crate,
and that was all the rank he ate.
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Wordplay
- Why is argon such a snob at parties? It's a noble gas - it refuses to mix with anyone.
What it teaches
Nobility was never in the blood - it is in the quiet act no one was watching you do.
Quick facts
What does NOBLE mean?
Having or showing high moral qualities, dignity, or fineness of character.
Is NOBLE a valid word?
Yes — NOBLE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NOBLE?
NOBLE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does NOBLE come from?
From Old French 'noble', from Latin '(g)nobilis' meaning well-known or noteworthy, from the root 'gnoscere' (to know) - the same root behind 'know' and 'notable'.
What can NOBLE teach us?
Nobility was never in the blood - it is in the quiet act no one was watching you do.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.