1. Showing high moral qualities, especially generosity, dignity, and selflessness
   "It was noble of him to give up his afternoon to help"; "a noble spirit"; "noble deeds"
    
2. Impressive in size, manner, or appearance
   "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses";
   - baronial, imposing, stately
    
3. Of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times
   "of noble birth"
    
4. Inert especially toward oxygen
   "a noble gas such as helium or neon"; "noble metals include gold and silver and platinum"

1. A titled peer of the realm
   "The noble attended the royal court regularly";
   - Lord, nobleman

Derived forms: nobles, nobler, noblest

See also: aristocratic, aristocratical, august, blue, blue-blooded, coroneted, dignifying, elevated, ennobling, exalted, gentle [archaic], grand, grandeur, greathearted, highborn, high-flown, honorable [US], honourable [Brit, Cdn], imperial, impressive, kinglike, kingly, lofty, lordly, magnanimous, magnanimousness, majestic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchical, nobility, nobleness, patrician, princely, purple, queenlike, queenly, rarefied, rarified, regal, royal, sublime, titled, unreactive

Type of: adult male, bozo [N. Amer, informal], cat [N. Amer, informal], chappie [Brit, informal], geezer [Brit, informal], guy [informal], hombre [N. Amer, informal], male aristocrat, man, sod [informal]

Antonym: ignoble, lowborn

Encyclopedia: Noble, Missouri