Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for nobleman

nobleman

noun as in peer

Strongest match

Strong matches

Discover More

Example Sentences

She’s sold as an indentured servant to a nobleman who trains her to be not only a courtesan but a spy, eventually embroiling her in a plot to overthrow her entire nation.

From Time

Affleck plays Count Pierre de d’Alencon, a nobleman and the film’s scheming villain.

Over a spectacularly long career, she gave defining performances of romantic 19th-century ballets — chief among them “Giselle,” the story of an innocent peasant maiden betrayed by a nobleman, set to music by Adolphe Adam.

After all, not only are his plays filled with gender-swapping characters and sexual confusion, he also wrote a series of sonnets, widely considered the most romantic poems ever composed in English, and dedicated them to a mysterious young nobleman.

Aiming to advance his friend’s suit, Bunker suggests that the infatuated nobleman pretend to fall seriously ill.

A royal prince raised in a home without a titled nobleman in sight?

After a few years, he ended up in Moscow, where he was briefly employed as valet to a wealthy nobleman.

It was during Daenerys' wedding and I was a Pentoshi nobleman in the background, wearing a gigantic hat.

Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.

M was a Miser, and hoarded up gold; N was a Nobleman, gallant and bold.

"Oh, they were quite safe in my case, not being a mangeur de cœurs," replied the discreet young nobleman.

We don't call every tuppeny-hapenny villa inhabited by a nobleman a 'castle' as they do in Germany and Austria.

Philip Wharton, died; an English nobleman, remarkable for his eccentricities.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement