Monarch vs Noble - What's the difference?
monarch | noble |
The ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
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*1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
*:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
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, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
As a noun monarch
is monarch (head of state in a monarchy).As a proper noun noble is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.
Usage notes
SeeSynonyms
* (ruler) autocrat, autocrator, big man, despot, dictator, , potentate, sovereign, tyrantDerived terms
* monarchism * monarchist * monarchyHyponyms
* (ruler) emperor, empress, king, queenSee also
* (projectlink) * (Danaus plexippus) A monarch can have any of the following titles: * emperor/empress * king/queen * prince/princess * grand duke/grand duchessAnagrams
* ----noble
English
(wikipedia noble)Noun
(en noun)- This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
Antonyms
* commoner * plebeianHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* half-noble * noble gasAdjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}