Proud vs Noble - What's the difference?
proud | noble | Synonyms |
Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (chiefly, Biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
* 1611 , Proverbs 16:5, King James Version
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=(Hilaire Belloc), title=(Cautionary Tales for Children), section=Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
, passage=Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud ! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!}}
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
Standing out or raised; swollen.
(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm ' proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
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.
*, chapter=5
, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
As adjectives the difference between proud and noble
is that proud is gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event while noble is having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.As a noun noble is
an aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.As a proper noun Noble is
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Alternative forms
* prowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ashamedDerived terms
* do someone proud * house-proud * proud as a peacock * proudfall * proud-hearted * proudling * proudly * proudness * proud-pied * proud-stomachedAnagrams
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(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.}}
