different between noble vs august

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????st/, /?-/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: au?gust

Etymology 1

From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from auge? (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). Doublet of Augustus.

Adjective

august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)

1. Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
2. Of noble birth.

Derived terms

• augustly
• augustness

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From August.

Verb

august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
2. (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

august (plural augusts)

1. Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)

References

Anagrams

• Tausug

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?w??ust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aw??ust/

Adjective

august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)

1. august (venerable, noble)

Derived terms

• augustament

Further reading

• “august” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /av??st/, [?w????sd?]

Noun

august c

1. August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
  Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned ^{(Category: da:Months)}

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German August.

Noun

august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)

1. August

Inflection

Synonyms

• lõikuskuu
• põimukuu
• viljakuu
• rukkikuu
• mädakuu

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregoriuse kalendri kuu; jaanuar, veebruar, märts, aprill, mai, juuni, juuli, august, september, oktoober, november, detsember ^{(Category: et:Months)}

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. August (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: fo:Months)}

Interlingua

Noun

august (plural augustes)

1. Alternative form of augusto

North Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) August

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum North Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month of the year)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

References

• “august” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month)

References

• “august” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust and gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aw.?ust/

Noun

august m (uncountable)

1. August

Synonyms

• gustar (colloquial, popular/folk name), gust / agust, m?s?lar (rarer popular/folk name)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) lun? a calendarului gregorian; ianuarie, februarie, martie, aprilie, mai, iunie, iulie, august, septembrie, octombrie, noiembrie, decembrie ^{(Category: ro:Months)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French auguste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw??ust/

Adjective

august m or n (feminine singular august?, masculine plural augu?ti, feminine and neuter plural auguste)

1. august, majestic, venerable

Declension

Synonyms

• sl?vit, pream?rit

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• avgust (Serbia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Bosnia) August

Synonyms

• kolovoz (Croatia)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/sije?anj, februar/velja?a, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?au?ust]

Noun

august m (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)

1. August

Declension

Derived terms

• augustový

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) mesiac gregoriánskeho kalendára; január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december ^{(Category: sk:Months)}

Further reading

• august in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Sundanese

Noun

august

1. August