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NOBLEMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A titled peer of the realm
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nobleman" is a kind of...):
male aristocrat (a man who is an aristocrat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nobleman"):
viscount ((in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count)
thane (a feudal lord or baron)
sire (a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority)
peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)
palatine; palsgrave ((Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands)
milord (a term of address for an English lord)
mesne lord (a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord)
marquess; marquis (nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count)
margrave (a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess))
grandee (a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal)
duke (a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank)
count (a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl)
burgrave (a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right)
baron (a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank)
armiger (a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms)
Instance hyponyms:
Don Juan (a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas)
Mortimer; Roger de Mortimer (English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330))
Antonym:
noblewoman (a woman of the peerage in Britain)
Context examples:
There I saw statesmen and soldiers, noblemen and lawyers, farmers and squires, with roughs of the East End and yokels of the shires, all toiling along with the prospect of a night of discomfort before them, on the chance of seeing a fight which might, for all that they knew, be decided in a single round.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author’s permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better entertainment to our young noblemen, than the common scribbles of politics and party.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes 'over the counter,' if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mrs. Ferrars at first reasonably endeavoured to dissuade him from marrying Miss Dashwood, by every argument in her power;—told him, that in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;—and enforced the assertion, by observing that Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE; but when she found that, though perfectly admitting the truth of her representation, he was by no means inclined to be guided by it, she judged it wisest, from the experience of the past, to submit—and therefore, after such an ungracious delay as she owed to her own dignity, and as served to prevent every suspicion of good-will, she issued her decree of consent to the marriage of Edward and Elinor.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
After an hour’s delay, the great nobleman appeared.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In one night they have held to ransom six hundred of the richest noblemen of Mantua.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was an elderly man, thin, demure, and commonplace—by no means the conception one forms of a Russian nobleman.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The two played together, and loved each other with all their hearts, and the old cook went out hunting like a nobleman.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
