Noble vs Large - What's the difference?

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Noble is a related term of large.

As a proper noun noble

is .

As an adjective large is

of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

As a noun large is

(music|obsolete) an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

noble

English

(wikipedia noble)

Noun

(en noun)

An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

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.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:

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 * plebeian

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* half-noble * noble gas

Adjective

(en adjective)

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= 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.}}

Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

Synonyms

* (having honorable qualities) great, honorable * (of exalted rank) superior

Antonyms

* (having honorable qualities) ignoble, mean, vile, despicable * (of exalted rank) inferior * (distinguished from the masses by birth) plebeian

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the adjective) * ennoble * nobility * noble-minded * noble gas * nobleman * noble metal * nobleness * noble rot * noblewoman * nobley

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large

English

Adjective

(er)

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.

* Milton

We have yet large day.

(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

* Felton

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

* Fairfax

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .

(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.

* Shakespeare

Some large jests he will make.

(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Synonyms

(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See also

Antonyms

* small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largish

Noun

(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.

A thousand dollars.

Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .

Derived terms

* at large

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