- 1having fine personal qualities that people admire, such as courage, honesty, and care for others a noble leader noble ideals He died for a noble cause. It was very noble of you to go so far to take him home. compare ignoble
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- 2very impressive in size or quality synonym splendid a noble building
- 3belonging to the nobility (= families of high social rank) synonym aristocratic a man of noble birth one of the noblest families in Portugal
noble
adjectiveNAmE//ˈnoʊbl//
(nobler NAmE//ˈnoʊblər//
, noblest NAmE//ˈnoʊbləst//
)NAmE//ˈnoʊbli//
adverb She bore the disappointment nobly. to be nobly bornSee noble in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: noble