Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character. · Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid. · Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn. · Of an element, unreactive.
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. · A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.
From Middle English noble, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”). False cognate of Arabic نبيل (nabīl). Displaced native English athel, from Old English æþele.
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