nobleman

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊbl̩mən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊbl̩mən/

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• Hyphenation: no‧ble‧man

Noun

nobleman (plural noblemen)

1. A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.
   • 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 377:

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

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Derived terms

• noblemanly

Translations

man of noble rank, title, or status; peer; aristocrat

• Arabic: نَبِيل (ar) m (nabīl)

  Egyptian Arabic: نبيل m (nabīl)

• Armenian: ազնվական (hy) (aznvakan)
• Belarusian: дваранíн m (dvaranín), шля́хцiц m (šljáxcic) (especially Polish)
• Bulgarian: благоро́дник (bg) m (blagoródnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貴族 / 贵族 (zh) (guìzú), 君子 (zh) (jūnzǐ)

• Czech: šlechtic (cs) m
• Danish: adelsmand c
• Dutch: adellijke (nl) m, edelman (nl) m
• Erzya: мастачей (mastačej)
• Estonian: aadlimees (et), aadlik (et)
• Finnish: aatelismies (fi)
• French: noble (fr) m or f
• German: Edelmann (de) m, Adeliger (de) m, Adliger (de) m, Aristokrat (de) m
• Hebrew: אָצִיל (he) m (atzíl)
• Hindi: रईस (hi) m (raīs)
• Hungarian: nemes (hu)
• Icelandic: aðalsmaður (is) m
• Italian: nobiluomo (it) m, nobile (it) m or f
• Japanese: 貴族 (ja) (きぞく, kizoku), 華族 (ja) (かぞく, kazoku)
• Korean: 귀족(貴族) (ko) (gwijok)

  Middle Korean: 어비〮ᄆᆞᆮ (èpímòt)

• Lushootseed: siʔab
• Macedonian: благо́родник m (blagórodnik), дво́рјанин m (dvórjanin)
• Māori: rangatira (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adelsmann (no) m

  Nynorsk: adelsmann m

• Pannonian Rusyn: дворян m (dvorjan), немеш m (nemeš) (historical), велможа m (velmoža), шляхтич m (šljaxtič) (historical)
• Plautdietsch: Odelmaun m
• Polish: szlachcic (pl) m
• Portuguese: nobre (pt) m or f
• Romanian: nobil (ro) m
• Russian: дворяни́н (ru) m (dvorjanín), вельмо́жа (ru) m (velʹmóža) (grandee), шля́хтич (ru) m (šljáxtič) (Polish)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плѐмӣћ m

  Latin: plȅmić m

• Slovak: šľachtic (sk) m
• Slovene: plemič m
• Spanish: noble (es) m
• Swedish: adelsman (sv) c
• Ukrainian: дворяни́н (uk) m (dvorjanýn), шля́хтич m (šljáxtyč) (especially Polish)
• Yiddish: אַדלמאַן m (adlman)

See also

• noblewoman