Nobleman
noun
A man from a family of high social status, usually owning a lot of land.
The king hosted a party attended by numerous noblemen from other kingdoms.
noun
A man from a family of high social status, usually owning a lot of land.
The king hosted a party attended by numerous noblemen from other kingdoms.
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Pro Tip 1/3Social Rank
Noblemen are part of the elite ruling class and often have titles like 'Duke' or 'Earl'.
The nobleman, a viscount, oversaw several villages.
Pro Tip 2/3Wealth and Power
A nobleman typically has significant wealth, influence in government, and holds considerable power.
As a nobleman, he influenced the king's decisions.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Context
In history, noblemen often gained their status through inheritance or royal favor.
The nobleman inherited his title from his father.
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Gyotaku: The ancient...
that they began painting eye details and other embellishments onto the prints. One famous nobleman, Lord Sakai, was an avid fisherman, and, when he made a large catch, he wanted to preserve the memory of the large, red sea bream. To do so, he commissioned a fisherman to print his catch.
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We’re introduced to characters such as Marmeladov, a miserable former official who has drank his family into ruin, and Svidrigailov, an unhinged and lecherous nobleman. As Raskolnikov’s own family arrives in town, their moral innocence stands in stark contrast
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Who was Confucius? -...
became one of China's greatest philosophers. Born to a nobleman but raised in poverty from a very young age following the untimely death of his father, Confucius developed what would become a lifelong sympathy for the suffering of the common people.
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Laura Snyder: The...
Prior to this meeting, those who studied the natural world were talented amateurs. Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley,
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Why should you read...
It is also one of his most action-packed. In five acts, he recounts a story of a Scottish nobleman who steals the throne, presides over a reign of terror, and then meets a bloody end. Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition,
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A Visual History of...
followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on. This idea was actually based on Aristotle's ontology, which classified all things known to man in a set of opposing categories, like the ones you see behind me.
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Why should you read "Don...
which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development. To challenge them, he wrote Don Quixote, the story of a hidalgo, or idle nobleman, who spends his days and nights reading chivalry novels.
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Where did Russia come...
Its noblemen and noblewomen married prominent European rulers, while residents of some cities enjoyed great culture, literacy, and even democratic freedoms uncommon for the time. But nothing lasts forever.
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
The crew included a young slave named Enrique, captured by Magellan on a previous journey to Malacca, and Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian nobleman seeking adventure.
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Ancient Human Sacrifice...
if the sacrifice of a nobleman is meant to hold back the Roman advance the gesture fails
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Gyotaku: The ancient...
that they began painting eye details and other embellishments onto the prints. One famous nobleman, Lord Sakai, was an avid fisherman, and, when he made a large catch, he wanted to preserve the memory of the large, red sea bream. To do so, he commissioned a fisherman to print his catch.
Video examples
Why should you read...
We’re introduced to characters such as Marmeladov, a miserable former official who has drank his family into ruin, and Svidrigailov, an unhinged and lecherous nobleman. As Raskolnikov’s own family arrives in town, their moral innocence stands in stark contrast
Video examples
Who was Confucius? -...
became one of China's greatest philosophers. Born to a nobleman but raised in poverty from a very young age following the untimely death of his father, Confucius developed what would become a lifelong sympathy for the suffering of the common people.
Video examples
Laura Snyder: The...
Prior to this meeting, those who studied the natural world were talented amateurs. Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils, like Charles Darwin, for example, or, the hired help of a nobleman, like Joseph Priestley,
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Why should you read...
It is also one of his most action-packed. In five acts, he recounts a story of a Scottish nobleman who steals the throne, presides over a reign of terror, and then meets a bloody end. Along the way, it asks important questions about ambition,
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A Visual History of...
followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on. This idea was actually based on Aristotle's ontology, which classified all things known to man in a set of opposing categories, like the ones you see behind me.
Video examples
Why should you read "Don...
which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development. To challenge them, he wrote Don Quixote, the story of a hidalgo, or idle nobleman, who spends his days and nights reading chivalry novels.
Video examples
Where did Russia come...
Its noblemen and noblewomen married prominent European rulers, while residents of some cities enjoyed great culture, literacy, and even democratic freedoms uncommon for the time. But nothing lasts forever.
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
The crew included a young slave named Enrique, captured by Magellan on a previous journey to Malacca, and Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian nobleman seeking adventure.
Video examples
Ancient Human Sacrifice...
if the sacrifice of a nobleman is meant to hold back the Roman advance the gesture fails
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Patricia Marx
American Writer
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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Adolphe Menjou
American Actor
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
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Tom Reiss
American Author
The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.
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Gary Shteyngart
American Writer
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Richard Rorty
American Philosopher
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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Thomas Middleditch
Canadian Actor
I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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Thomas Day
British Author
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
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Anthony Trollope
English Author
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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Patricia Marx
American Writer
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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Adolphe Menjou
American Actor
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
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Tom Reiss
American Author
The original Alexandre Dumas was born in 1762, the son of 'Antoine Alexandre de l'Isle,' in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue. Antoine was a nobleman in hiding from his family and from the law, and he fathered the boy with a black slave.
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Gary Shteyngart
American Writer
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Richard Rorty
American Philosopher
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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Thomas Middleditch
Canadian Actor
I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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Thomas Day
British Author
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
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Anthony Trollope
English Author
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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