Word Meanings - NOBLEWOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• PEERESS
  The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
• NOBLE
  nobilis that can be or is known, well known, famous, highborn, noble, 1. Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues,
• NOBLENESS
  The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• NOBLEY
  1. The body of nobles; the nobility. Chaucer. 2. Noble birth; nobility; dignity. Chaucer.
• NOBLESS; NOBLESSE
  1. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. Chaucer. Spenser. B. Jonson. 2. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. Dryden.
• NOBLEMAN
  One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.
• NOBLE-MINDED
  Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous. -- No"ble-mind`ed*ness, n.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• IGNOBLENESS
  State or quality of being ignoble.
• UNNOBLE
  Ignoble. Shak.
• ENNOBLE
  Etym: 1. To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. 2. To raise to the rank
• GEORGE NOBLE
  A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
• ENNOBLER
  One who ennobles.
• IGNOBLE
  Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. Syn. -- Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous; infamous. (more info) 1. Of low birth or family; not noble;
• ENNOBLEMENT
  1. The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon. 2. That which ennobles; excellence; dignity.
• DISENNOBLE
  To deprive of that which ennobles; to degrade. An unworthy behavior degrades and disennobles a man. Guardian.