noble Definition

noble
adj nobler, noblest

1. Honourable or generous.

Thesaurus: meritorious, generous, magnanimous, magnificent, courtly, lofty, elevated, august, reputable, eminent, lordly, dignified, supreme, virtuous, worthy; Antonym: base, ignoble.
2. Of high birth or rank.
3. Grand, splendid or imposing in appearance.

Thesaurus: aristocratic, titled, patrician, blue-blooded, imperial, lordly, of gentle birth, of gentle blood, kingly, born in the purple; Antonym: common, plebeian, lowborn.

noun

1. A person of noble rank. Compare aristocrat, peer¹.

Thesaurus: lord, nobleman, patrician, peer, aristocrat, baron; Antonym: pleb.

Derivative: nobleness
noun

Derivative: nobly
adverb

With a noble manner; honourably.
Thesaurus: honourably, justly, fairly, respectably, honestly.

Etymology: 13c: from Latin nobilis, originally gnobilis knowable, ie well-known.