NOBLEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nobleman mean? 

• NOBLEMAN (noun)
  The noun NOBLEMAN has 1 sense:

1. a titled peer of the realm

  Familiarity information: NOBLEMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOBLEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A titled peer of the realm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lord; noble; nobleman

Hypernyms ("nobleman" is a kind of...):

male aristocrat (a man who is an aristocrat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nobleman"):

baron (a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank)

viscount ((in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count)

thane (a feudal lord or baron)

sire (a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority)

peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)

palatine; palsgrave ((Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands)

milord (a term of address for an English lord)

mesne lord (a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord)

marquess; marquis (nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count)

margrave (a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess))

grandee (a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal)

duke (a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank)

count (a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl)

burgrave (a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right)

armiger (a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms)

Instance hyponyms:

Don Juan (a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas)

Mortimer; Roger de Mortimer (English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330))

Antonym:

noblewoman (a woman of the peerage in Britain)

 Context examples 

‘A Russian nobleman who is now resident in England,’ it runs, ‘would be glad to avail himself of the professional assistance of Dr. Percy Trevelyan.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down into the fire.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they came to the nobleman’s castle, the table was spread, and Crabb was told to sit down and eat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then I caught my breath as I read the time-honoured title of the great nobleman and statesman whose wife she had been.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By heaven! but this is too much,” cried an English nobleman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I wonder no wealthy nobleman or gentleman has taken a fancy to her: Mr. Rochester, for instance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Cautions against the violence of such noblemen and baronets as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The world belongs to the true nobleman, to the great blond beasts, to the noncompromisers, to the 'yes-sayers.'

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)