noble

Meanings

Noun

• An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
• A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

Adjective

• Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
• Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
• Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
• Both isohedral and isogonal.

Origin

• From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis, from nosco, gnosco.
• Displaced native Middle English athel (from Old English æþele) and Middle English hathel, hathel (from the merger of Old English æþele and Old English hæleþ).