noblesse
UK/nə(ʊ)ˈblɛs/
noblesse noun: the quality of being noble; nobleness.
Noun (1)
noblesse (usually uncountable, plural noblesses)
Noun (2)
noblesse pl (plural only)
- The nobility; peerage.
- Faire braunch of noblesse, flowre of cheualrie, / That with your worth the world amazed make, / How shall I quite the paines, ye suffer for my sake?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- All gentlemen are almost obliged to it: and I know no reason we should give that advantage to the commonalty of England to be foremost in brave actions, which the noblesse of France would never suffer in their peasants1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)
noblesse meaning in Urdu
noblesse in Urdu
- noblesse
- اشراف ašrāf
Forms of noblesse
| plural | noblesses |
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Origin of noblesse
From Middle English noblesse, from Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Words that rhyme with noblesse
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- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- tress
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
Questions about noblesse
- What does noblesse mean?
- Noblesse means the quality of being noble; nobleness.
- What is noblesse in Urdu?
- Noblesse in Urdu is اشراف (ašrāf). See Noblesse meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is noblesse?
- Noblesse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce noblesse?
- Noblesse is pronounced /nə(ʊ)ˈblɛs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of noblesse?
- The plural of noblesse is noblesses.
Words near noblesse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: noblesse (page history and authors); اشراف (Urdu) (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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