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Noble is a related term of patrician.


As a proper noun noble

is .

As an adjective patrician is

of or relating to (saint patrick).

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.
  • *, chapter=5
  • , 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

    See also

    * honorable

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    patrician

    English

    Alternative forms

    * patritian (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (antiquity) a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
  • A person of high birth; a nobleman.
  • One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
  • Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • born in the patrician file of society
  • * Addison
  • his horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood