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humbles

humbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of humble.

humbles is the plural of humble.

Meaning of humble

Verb (1)

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
    • Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (often, reflexive, transitive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
    • And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me1979 September 27, Leonard Cohen, “Humbled in Love”, in Recent Songs

Verb (2)

humble (third-person singular simple present humbles, present participle humbling, simple past and past participle humbled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To hum.
    • humbling and bumbling

See all 11 meanings of humble

Noun

humbles pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) Entrails of a deer.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Humbles

Humbles (plural Humbleses)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Humbles

Humbles

  1. (plural) plural of Humble

Forms of humbles

Noun
alternative formumbles
Proper noun
pluralHumbleses

Origin of humbles

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From numbles.

Probably a metonymic occupation surname for a venison butcher or sausage maker, from Middle English numbles (“entrails of a deer”).

Words formed from humbles

Questions about humbles

What does humbles mean?
Humbles means entrails of a deer.
What is humbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Humbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of humble.
What part of speech is humbles?
Humbles can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near humbles in the dictionary

  1. humbleness
  2. humblenesse
  3. humblenesses
  4. humbler
  5. humblers
  6. humbles
  7. Humbleses
  8. humblesome
  9. humblesse
  10. humblest
  11. humbleth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humbles (page history and authors); Humbles (page history and authors); humble (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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