{
    "term": "noble",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having or showing fine personal qualities that people admire, such as courage, honesty and care for others",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a noble leader"
                },
                {
                    "text": "noble ideals"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He died for a noble cause."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She died in a noble cause."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was very noble of you to go so far to take him home."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "belonging to a family of high social rank (= belonging to the nobility)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a young man of noble birth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the noblest families in Portugal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Intermarriage between the noble families means that all the counts are related."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "aristocratic",
            "topics": ["People in society"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "very impressive in size or quality",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a noble building"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊbl/",
                "audio": "no/noble/noble__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊblə(r)/",
                "audio": "no/noble/nobler__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊblɪst/",
                "audio": "no/noble/noblest__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊbl/",
                "audio": "no/noble/noble__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊblər/",
                "audio": "no/noble/nobler__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnəʊblɪst/",
                "audio": "no/noble/noblest__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from Latin (g)nobilis ‘noted, high-born’, from an Indo-European root shared by know."
}