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Definition of "nobleman" []

  • A man of noble rank. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nobleman" in a sentence
  • "November 2nd, 2009 Virgin nobleman SIR RICHARD BRANSON has abandoned his efforts to hire a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River plane crash for his intergalactic spaceship mission."
  • "The bird carols as sweet a lay for the toil-worn peasant, who labors from morn till night, to gain a scanty subsistence, as for the titled nobleman, who rolls along in his gilded chariot."
  • "On the 14th of July, 1909, during the sitting of the British House of Commons, a certain nobleman-a real earl-charged a Labour member with being drunk, and a hub-bub arose and the Labour member resented it, and said he was not drunk."