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important

English

Etymology

From Middle English important, from Medieval Latin important-, import?ns.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p??t?nt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m?p??t?nt/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /?m?po(?)?t?nt/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /?m?po?t?nt/

Adjective

important (comparative more important, superlative most important)

  1. Having relevant and crucial value.
    • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
      For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
  2. (obsolete) Pompous; self-important.

Synonyms

  • significant
  • weighty
  • See also Thesaurus:important

Antonyms

  • negligible
  • ignorable
  • petty
  • slight
  • unimportant

Derived terms

  • importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIP

Related terms

  • import
  • importance

Translations


Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /im.po??tant/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /im.pur?tan/

Adjective

important (masculine and feminine plural importants)

  1. important

Derived terms

  • importantment

Related terms

  • importància

Further reading

  • “important” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “important” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “important” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “important” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.p??.t??/

Adjective

important (feminine singular importante, masculine plural importants, feminine plural importantes)

  1. important
  2. significant

Derived terms

  • importance

Verb

important

  1. present participle of importer

Further reading

  • “important” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

important

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of import?

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

important m (feminine singular importanta, masculine plural importants, feminine plural importantas)

  1. important

Related terms

  • importància

Romanian

Etymology

From French important.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [im.por?tant]

Adjective

important m or n (feminine singular important?, masculine plural importan?i, feminine and neuter plural importante)

  1. important

Declension

Related terms

  • importan??

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noble

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis (knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent), from n?scere, gn?scere (to know).

Displaced native Middle English athel (noble) (from Old English æþele) and Middle English hathel, hathelle (noble, nobleman) (from the merger of Old English æþele (nobleman) and Old English hæleþ (hero)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??b?l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?no?b?l/
  • Rhymes: -??b?l
  • Hyphenation: no?ble

Noun

noble (plural nobles)

  1. An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. [from 14th c.]
    Antonyms: commoner, plebeian
  2. (historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d. [from 14th c.]
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
      I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 93:
      There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:nobleman

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

noble (comparative nobler or more noble, superlative noblest or most noble)

  1. Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
    Synonyms: great, honorable
    Antonyms: despicable, ignoble, mean, vile
  2. Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
  3. Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
    Synonym: superior
    Antonyms: inferior, plebeian
  4. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Both isohedral and isogonal.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • honorable

Further reading

  • noble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • noble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • noble at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Bolen, Nobel

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?n?.bl?/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /?n?.ble/

Adjective

noble (masculine and feminine plural nobles)

  1. noble

Derived terms

  • gas noble
  • noblement
  • noblesa

Noun

noble m or f (plural nobles)

  1. noble

Further reading

  • “noble” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “noble” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • “noble” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “noble” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin n?bilis according to the TLFi dictionary.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n?bl/

Adjective

noble (plural nobles)

  1. noble, aristocratic
  2. (of material) non-synthetic, natural; fine
  3. noble, worthy (thoughts, cause etc.)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ? Danish: nobel
  • ? German: nobel

Noun

noble m or f (plural nobles)

  1. noble (person who is noble)

References

  • “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

  • “noble” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?no?bl?/

Adjective

noble

  1. inflection of nobel:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French noble, from Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble

  1. noble

Descendants

  • English: noble

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble m or f (plural nobles)

  1. noble

Old French

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Adjective

noble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noble)

  1. noble; upper-class; well-bred
    Synonyms: avenant, cortois

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin n?bilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?noble/, [?no.??le]

Adjective

noble (plural nobles)

  1. noble

Derived terms

Related terms

  • nobleza

Swedish

Adjective

noble

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of nobel.

Anagrams

  • Nobel, nobel

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