Superhuman vs Noble - What's the difference?
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Beyond what is possible for a human being.
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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.
Superhuman is a related term of noble.
As an adjective superhuman
is beyond what is possible for a human being.As a noun superhuman
is a human being with remarkable abilities.As a proper noun noble is
.superhuman
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- No doubt, Jane thought, the rider, in his almost superhuman power of foresight, saw behind the horizon the dark, lengthening shadows that were soon to crowd and gloom over him and her and little Fay.
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.}}