noble
adjective
distinguished by rank or title.
nobles
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pluralof noble.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"We need a long process of changing the mindset" of the nobles, he said during the enormous funeral of one of them close to the capital, to which 4,000 guests, including atas, were invited.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the Middle Ages, William the Conqueror took control of England's land and granted parts of it to loyal nobles, who leased it to others for a fixed term.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
That’s because it includes a spectrum of voices from across our culture – nobles and villagers, Black and Indigenous figures, women, British loyalists, philosophers and soldiers among them.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
“But I also harvest flowers, fragrant blooms to decorate the palaces, the houses of the nobles on the mainland.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
