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Definitions: Noblesse |
NoblesseNoun1. The state of being of noble birth. 2. Members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "noblesse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonym: NoblesseSynonym: nobility (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Phrase: Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete; adelig und edel sind zweierlei; noblesse oblige. |
Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Noblesse |
| English words defined with "noblesse": Nobless, noblesse oblige. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Noblesse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (elevation, gentry, grandeur, greatness, loftiness, lordliness, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness), German (noblesse). |
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Screenplays | I realized that your noblesse oblige would not permit you to abandon one of your men. (The Scarlet Pimpernel; writing credit: William Bast; Baroness Emmuska Orczy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Noblesse oblige (1987) | |
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| "Noblesse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Noblesse" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 61.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 38.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "noblesse": noblesse oblige. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
noblesse | 41 |
noblesse oblige | 25 |
noblesse case | 22 |
noblesse se | 12 |
ahanix noblesse | 7 |
gmc noblesse se | 6 |
montblanc noblesse | 5 |
gmc noblesse pearl | 4 |
mont blanc noblesse | 4 |
blanc mont noblesse oblige | 3 |
gmc noblesse | 3 |
arms college noblesse | 3 |
de noblesse titre | 2 |
europeenne.com noblesse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "noblesse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fisnikëri (generosity, gentility, gentlefolk, gentlehood, grandeur, nobility, notables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šlechta (nobility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | noblesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιβάλλεται ευγένεια (noblesse oblige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | a nemesség kötelez (noblesse oblige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nobilt (knuckle, nobility, nobleness), nobili. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有名税 (noblesse oblige, the price of fame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうめいぜい (noblesse oblige, the price of fame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oblessenay suntuosidade (costliness, lordliness, Luxembourg, magnificence, richness, splendor, splendour). (various references) дворянство (gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentry, knighthood). (various references) plemstvo (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentlehood, nobility, nobleness, peerage), plemenitost (high minded, liberality, nobleness). (various references) nobleza (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentlehood, honesty, nobility, nobleness, peerage, uprightness). (various references) adelskap förpliktar (noblesse oblige). (various references) ความเชื่อว่าผู้มั่งคั่งควรช่วยเหลือผู้"้อยกว่า (noblesse oblige). (various references) soylular sınıfı, asiller (aristocracy, gentlefolks, peerage, the upper ten). (various references) аристократія (aristocracy, nobility, notable, optimacy), благородство (gentlehood, grandeur, greatness, honor, honour, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness), дворянство (nobility). (various references) quý tộc (patrician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "noblesse": noblesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "noblesse" (pronounced nōble"s) |
| 4 | -b l e" s | bless. |
| 3 | -l e" s | coalesce, convalesce, less, nevertheless, nonetheless, unless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: boneless. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: lebens, lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, nobles. | |
-3 letters: benes, bless, boles, bones, ebons, enols, leben, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, lobes, loess, loses, noble, noels, noses, obese, seels, sense, slobs, sloes, snobs, soles, sones. | |
-4 letters: been, bees, bels, bene, bens, bole, bone, boss, ebon, eels, else, enol, eons, eses, lees, leno, lens, less, lobe, lobs. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: bluenoses, nobleness, noblesses. | |
+2 letters: bluestones, boldnesses, doubleness, nosebleeds, oblateness, ostensible, seasonable. | |
+3 letters: confessable, ignobleness, joblessness, losableness, lovableness, movableness, noblenesses, notableness, obliqueness, obsolescent, potableness, responsible, volubleness. | |
+4 letters: absoluteness, adorableness, bloodinesses, bootlessness, cobblestones, doublenesses, forcibleness, horribleness, isobutylenes, nebulosities, nebulousness, nonreusables, oblatenesses, obsolescence, obsoleteness, provableness, shacklebones, sociableness, unseasonable, violableness, voidableness, wobblinesses, workableness. | |
+5 letters: assemblywomen, belongingness, biliousnesses, bloodlessness, boundlessness, brotherliness, considerables, doubtlessness, elaborateness, enjoyableness, favorableness, honorableness, ignoblenesses, immovableness, insolubleness, irresponsible, joblessnesses, losablenesses, lovablenesses, memorableness, movablenesses, notablenesses, obliquenesses, obsolescences, obsolescently, potablenesses, removableness, ribonucleases, salmonberries, subadolescent, volublenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 62 6C 65 73 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -... .-.. . ... ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o b l e s s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0062 006C 0065 0073 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881687871858571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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