Nobleman

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nobleman \No"ble*man\, n.; pl. {Noblemen}.
     One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank
     above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by
     patent.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nobleman
       n : a titled peer of the realm [syn: {Lord}, {noble}] [ant: {Lady},
            {Lady}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "nobleman":
     Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood,
     count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee,
     hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate,
     magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, optimate, palsgrave,
     patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell,
     thoroughbred, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Nobleman
     (Gr. basilikos, i.e., "king's man"), an officer of state (John
     4:49) in the service of Herod Antipas. He is supposed to have
     been the Chuza, Herod's steward, whose wife was one of those
     women who "ministered unto the Lord of their substance" (Luke
     8:3). This officer came to Jesus at Cana and besought him to go
     down to Capernaum and heal his son, who lay there at the point
     of death. Our Lord sent him away with the joyful assurance that
     his son was alive.
     

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  NOBLEMAN, n.  Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious
  to incur social distinction and suffer high life.