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nobleman

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈnəʊbl̩mən//
  • United States//ˈnoʊbl̩mən//

A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

noun

  1. 1

    A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.

    The King [...] sit at the head of the royal table with his elder warriors and advisers, noblemen and noblewomen.

Etymology

Etymology tree English noble Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man English man English nobleman From noble + man.

Forms

plural
noblemen
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).