I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a noble cause (= an aim that is morally good )
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He died for a noble cause.
a noble ideal
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He was willing to sacrifice his life for this noble ideal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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In this magnificent room, he looked as if he belonged, his face and bearing as noble as any aristocrat's.
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Among combatants, boxing is as noble a profession as there is.
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Similarly, the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time.
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Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions.
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But I do not picture myself as noble and spiritual person, Harvey.
more
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He is shorter than the tallest of men, yet taller and more noble than those of middle height.
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The first reason sounds more noble than the second.
most
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You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.
so
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Moon-music, so silvery, so far, so noble .
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Gifts given without cause and beyond the ability to expend, self-sacrifices which seem so noble at the time compose propitiation.
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Ironic that so noble an edifice should house so vile an organisation.
very
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He was at the same time very simple and very noble .
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Equality of opportunity is a very noble and moral goal, and any responsible democracy must do everything reasonable to provide it.
■ NOUN
birth
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He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress.
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This woman of noble birth chose to study philosophy rather than relish in her beauty.
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His long fingernails attest that his was not a life of hard physical labour but that he was probably of noble birth .
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Its ranks are open to all young men of noble birth regardless of where they live within the Empire.
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According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth , who was promised to a pagan.
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There is nothing surprising in this continuing emphasis on noble birth and high social rank.
blood
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Above these were the heavily armed cavalry, who were free vassals of noble blood .
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She could easily have noble blood , she looked the sort.
cause
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Marlon may have got involved in a noble cause , but it got a lot of people's backs up in the business.
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Rarely in the annals of human history has any people committed so much of its treasure to such a noble cause .
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The only souls who escaped her torments were those who were pure in thought or who had died for a noble cause .
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This was a necessary but not a noble cause .
family
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Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career.
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Within a region, several noble families competed for influence.
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Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family , then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.
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Intermarriage between the noble families means that all the counts are related at least distantly, and many are cousins or half-cousins.
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It was a sad sight with the faded grandeur of a once noble family home.
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It was not the Church's policy to execute the members of noble families retrieved from Jeopardy's clutches.
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Its lands are dotted with vineyards, villas and summer estates to which the noble families of the city retire.
friend
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If the hon. Lady has any proposals, I am sure that my noble Friend would be interested to hear them.
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The report of my hon. and noble Friend Lady Cumberlege has clearly impressed my hon. Friend.
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My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State addressed a meeting of farmers in my constituency.
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My noble friend the Earl of Caithness has agreed to attend in my place.
house
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It looked no doubt much like other fortified noble houses of the period in Rome, although it was perhaps more lavishly decorated.
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The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
ideal
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Here was a country striving for the noblest ideals , breaking new ground ... Straight up!
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Alger's stories gave the country a noble ideal - a society in which imagination and effort summoned their just reward.
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Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals .
land
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The structure of agriculture makes it difficult to treat the peasant drive for noble land as the harbinger of rural capitalism.
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The peasantry wanted noble land without paying compensation; they wanted to see taxation and conscription done away with.
lord
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These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a noble lord of my acquaintance once said.
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King: How now, my noble lords , good morrow!
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The noble Lord is not, you understand a personal friend of mine: just my current reading matter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a noble purpose
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a man of noble birth
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In the end, none of the characters are good or noble .
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The Siberian tiger is regarded as a noble creature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above these were the heavily armed cavalry, who were free vassals of noble blood.
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He was rough as a bear in manner, but withal a noble , tender-hearted fellow and a splendid soldier.
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I was not paid to preside over disasters - however noble the cause.
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In its place she put her noble Negro, patient, saintly Tom.
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Those intentions were noble , the realisation fraught.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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These were not the great nobles .
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The great nobles or daimyos, the heads of clans and districts, numbered about 270.
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But none of this could disguise the fact that the great nobles had substantial bodies of experienced soldiers at their disposal.
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He represents a great noble of the Empire, perhaps even the Emperor himself.
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The concentration of extensive territorial power in the hands of a small number of great nobles became more marked than ever.
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Capetian successes in Poitou and Aquitaine were heavily dependent upon the volatile loyalty of the great magnates and nobles on Poitou.
other
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Meanwhile, his relationship with Northumberland brought other nobles into his orbit, most notably John lord Scrope of Bolton.
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He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a gathering of kings and nobles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And at the very top, the ancient immunities of kings and nobles.
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Fathers who wanted to become nobles sacrificed their own children at altars.
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He attends the Imperial court in Altdorf and is one of Karl Franz's oldest and most trusted nobles.
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In relation to the total number of nobles in Gascony, the proportion of knights was therefore relatively small.
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Meanwhile, his relationship with Northumberland brought other nobles into his orbit, most notably John lord Scrope of Bolton.
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Might this religion not encourage revolt on the part of the nobles and peasants, as it rather did in 1638?
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Second, and more important, even nobles who were determined to be recalcitrant expressed their recalcitrance in many different ways.
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The range of opinions expressed by nobles on the provincial committees made plain to St Petersburg that it had to act alone.