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noble

A noble is an aristocrat; a member of the highest social class. This house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century. A noble was a medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

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Noble qualities are those admired by others. It was very noble of him to defend his friend.

noble

(= baronial, imposing, stately) impressive in appearance a baronial mansion an imposing residence a noble tree severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses stately columns 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 spirit noble deeds inert especially toward oxygen a noble gas such as helium or neon noble metals include gold and silver and platinum (= Lord) a titled peer of the realm

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Tom is of a noble descent.
Your sister looks as noble as if she were a princess.
The old man had a noble countenance.
The country was governed by a French noble family.
He has a noble mind.
He is a man of noble blood.
She is a woman of noble birth.
It is sweet and noble to die for one's country.
Eugene will get the Ig Noble prize for his contribution to literature.
Noble be man, helpful and good.
Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon are noble gases.
A noble man by woman's gentle word may oft be led.
What a noble heart that good man has!
He is of noble ancestry.
He is a man of noble birth.
Esperantists are guided by a noble ideal.
Nothing is more difficult to a noble person than a rich banquet, especially when the prime seats are taken by idiots.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
The noble knight held his breath as he gazed at the beautiful princess.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Neon is a noble gas.
He is of noble blood.
It's hard to get rid of the Soviet stereotype that the Decembrists were exceptionally noble, honest and fearless people.

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Yes, yes yes, let's see what these noble Africans have learned.
What more can be said of a creature so beautiful and noble and beloved?
Julia, a noble lady of Pompeii, is passionately in love with Glaucus.
The birthday of a noble lady of Pompeii.
A memorial statue of noble Nydia is a silent witness of Ione and Glaucus's happy life.
In order to do this, I must obtain a noble title by marrying an aristocrat.
Big Jim was the noble type. He had suffered.
The Count of Vandeuvres, distinguished, skeptical, last of a noble line, owner of a racing stable.
Goodbye, Dea! If I had been rich. and noble as you, they would have allowed us to love.
My King is the most noble Christian of all.
How noble of him.
A Victor Noble.
Why, Miss Schuyler, I want to be noble.
The noble young physician. was just a masher.
From a noble family.
She's from a noble clan.
O noble Sir Salvago, you are too unassuming.
I beg my noble guests not to disdain my invitation, just a simple meal.
He has become far too mighty, the noble sir!
A noble mercenary, nothing more.
He is not the noble man you think he is.
You try to defame him, but he is noble and sublime and I am miserable and depraved.
The head of this gang of wild fellows, of noble robbers, is Alviano Salvago.
Marriage is a noble institution.
So noble, so aristocratic!
It was fine, noble.
Bob Noble's parties are always like this, except that you don't often see such awfully fine hands.
Her noble ladyship, I suppose.
You did a noble deed.
I see your point of view, dear, and it's all very modern and noble.
The groom is the son of a noble samurai.
She's going to marry the son of a noble samurai.
Whether for serf or noble.
A certain Saxon noble.
Surely it's a crime under the noble Prince John to love one's country.
Enrich his noble heart and bestow upon him all princely virtues.
No commonplace boy could have done that. No boy other than the noble lad whom I now present to you, Tom Sawyer.

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Noble rhetoric!
The mystique of immense wealth, noble birth, and great exclusivity is further sustained by the global mass media that promote these rituals.
That was a noble thing to do, but a key question was never asked: Why should someone who is able to travel to another country have priority over others who are in refugee camps and unable to travel?
The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, represented a noble and ambitious departure in European history.
Of course, love of research and teaching is why many people join university faculties in the first place, but why not give these noble sentiments a helping hand with appropriate financial incentives?
This made the notion of celibacy, a perhaps noble, but for most people impossible ideal, bearable.
It should reflect the European commitment to the noble heritage of the French Revolution, as reflected in, say, the French constitution, but it should reflect in equal measure the symbolism of those constitutions that include an invocatio dei.
To activists of good faith who may have been taken in by duplicitous representations of the movement, I would say only that there are too many noble causes in need of assistance to allow oneself to be enlisted in a dubious one.
The desire to help others without consideration for ourselves is not just a noble ideal.
The education establishment recoiled at what it considered a less-than-noble reason to seek higher education.
And, certainly for Monnet and the other founders of postwar Europe, it was an entirely benign, even noble, ideal.
How noble and courageous that sounds.
True, such political infighting makes the EU appear as if it is no longer motivated by great and noble ambitions.
All of these were great and noble qualities, and all of them now seem utterly superfluous to most Poles.
If we are still making any progress at all, it is because of the noble efforts of a small number of United States senators.
The problem with this Germanophobia is not simply that it is stupid, or that it is yet another symptom of the decomposition, before our eyes, of the noble European project of integration and ever-closer union.
I can hardly think of a better way for the EU to dishonor the noble ideals of freedom, equality, and human rights that the Union espouses - indeed, principles that it reiterates in its constitutional agreement.
The bad news is that Europe's feebleness and America's fatigue might also signal the limits of noble ideas such as the obligation to interfere in order to protect populations being brutalized by their own rulers.
It is a noble hope, but also a dangerous one, for dreams can easily turn into nightmares.
As the head of the government that carried out these acts, British Prime Minister David Cameron has betrayed his country's most noble cultural legacy.
They are grand, noble, and ambitious goals, but fully attainable for today's Chile, the Bicentennial Chile, a Chile now viewing the twenty-first century with more optimism and enthusiasm than ever before.
Dealing with despots and shady tycoons is no longer venal, but noble.
Revealingly, the writer Miranda Seymour's recently published book Noble Endeavours reminds Britain of the centuries-old love affair between Germany and England.
The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the peasants down and widen the surplus - for, after all, they cannot make more land.
Of course, the eradication of polio is a noble goal.
Among its first victims would be the noble aspirations of the OSCE, and NATO's investment in Afghanistan.
There is cruel irony in the observation that in the country which Jinnah created in the name of Islam, that noble faith itself now constitutes the principal challenge to the very survival of the state.
US President Barack Obama has become one of the most prominent global advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons, a position for which he unexpectedly received a Noble Peace Prize last year.
Many of McNamara's critics assert - rightly, I think - that he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble intentions that the record could not sustain.

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