Noble vs Patrician - What's the difference?

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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

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Anagrams

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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

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