different between nobel vs dignity

English

Adjective

nobel

1. Misspelling of noble.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nobel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nobel (comparative nobeler, superlative nobelste)

1. noble, honourable

   Synonym: edel

German

Etymology

From French noble, from Latin nobilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?no?b?l/

Adjective

nobel (comparative nobler, superlative am nobelsten)

1. noble, honourable

Declension

Further reading

• “nobel” in Duden online

Italian

Noun

nobel m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Nobel (“Nobel Prize winner”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French noble.

Adjective

n?bel

1. noble, of noble birth

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: nobel

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “nobel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.b?l/

Noun

nobel m inan

1. nobelium (chemical element, No, atomic number 102)
2. noble (medieval coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries)

Spanish

Noun

nobel m (plural nobel)

1. Nobel Prize

   Synonym: Premio Nobel

Noun

nobel m or f (plural nobel)

1. Nobel Prize winner

   Synonym: premio nobel

Swedish

Adjective

nobel

1. noble (having honorable qualities)

Declension

Anagrams

• noble

English

Etymology

From Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin d?gnit?s (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from d?gnus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?-nos, from *de?- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n?ti/

Noun

dignity (countable and uncountable, plural dignities)

1. The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
   • 1752, Henry Fielding, Amelia, I. viii

     He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

   • 1981, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, art. 5

     Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.

2. Decorum, formality, stateliness.
   • 1934, Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay:

     Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

3. High office, rank, or station.
   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231:

     He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
4. One holding high rank; a dignitary.
5. (obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

Synonyms

• worth
• worthiness

Coordinate terms

• augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulness

Related terms

• deign
• dignified
• dignify

Translations

See also

• affirmation
• integrity
• self-respect
• self-esteem
• self-worth

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

Anagrams

• tidying