ennoble
/ɪˈnəʊbəl/
ennoble verb: to bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
Verb
ennoble (third-person singular simple present ennobles, present participle ennobling, simple past and past participle ennobled)
- To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
- We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.2020, Francine Prose, “Has Trump learned anything from Covid-19? Absolutely not”, in The Grauniad
- There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise.2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister Hendy has a tough job... but the skills to succeed”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44
- Synonyms:
- elevate, invest, knight, lord, advance, aggrandize, dignify, exalt, honor, nobilitate
- To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
- To inarch.
ennoble meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
ennoble in Bengali
- মর্যাদাবান করা, মহিমান্বিত করা, কারো সম্মান বৃদ্ধি করা
ennoble in Malayalam
- മഹിമപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഉത്കൃഷ്ടമാക്കുക, ഉന്നതപദവി നൽകുക
ennoble in Kannada
- ಮೇಲೆತ್ತು, ಉದಾತ್ತಗೊಳಿಸು, ಹಿರಿಮೆಗೊಳಿಸು, ಗೌರವಯುತ ಮಾಡು, ಉನ್ನತಿಗೇರಿಸು, ಬಿರುದುಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡು
Examples of ennoble in a sentence
- Somewhere, somehow, there had to be something more ennobling than that.
- Their proportion remained largely unchanged over centuries despite the caseless arrival of thousands from the more ennobled parts of the country.
- When the childmind is protected by an ennobled adultmind, the childmind is free to play, and wonder, and live in innocence.
Synonyms of ennoble
Forms of ennoble
| third-person singular present | ennobles |
|---|---|
| present participle | ennobling |
| past participle | ennobled |
| past | ennobled |
Origin of ennoble
From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble.
Words formed from ennoble
Words that rhyme with ennoble
Questions about ennoble
- What does ennoble mean?
- Ennoble means to bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
- What is ennoble in Bengali?
- Ennoble in Bengali is মর্যাদাবান করা, মহিমান্বিত করা, কারো সম্মান বৃদ্ধি করা. See Ennoble meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is ennoble?
- Ennoble is a verb.
- How do you pronounce ennoble?
- Ennoble is pronounced /ɪˈnəʊbəl/.
- What is the past tense of ennoble?
- The past tense of ennoble is ennobled.
Words near ennoble in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ennoble (page history and authors); Ennoble (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ennoble (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ennoble (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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