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nobles

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Editorial note

In ancient times (only a few hundred years ago, actually), peasants were ruled by kings and nobles.

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Quick take

An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee, United States.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee, United States.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nobles.

noun

An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee, United States.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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In ancient times (only a few hundred years ago, actually), peasants were ruled by kings and nobles.

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Enjoy: Nobles and rich merchants invited him to their dinner tables, where he spoke gibberish while inhaling mouthfuls of bloody food.

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Is everyone with a 7 figure bank account like the hordes of minor nobles?

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The European nobles are the descendants of the warlike people who provided protection as the Roman Empire disintegrated in the 3rd-8th centuries.

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Englishmen of his time did not find this at all strange, though hardly any of them agreed that nobles and butchers were statistically identical.

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Where the nobles enjoy lives of relative ease and comfort while the people who do most of the work struggle to make ends meet.

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Fewer drunken songs o' night time, fewer nobles lying in the gutter...

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In Russian Empire the imperial court mostly spoke French so lower classes, aspiring to sound more like nobles, borrowed a whole lot of French words.

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As a result, Atahualpa and his nobles had, shall we say, a majority holding in the paternity of the next generation.

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This is an interesting hypothesis, but I think we should consider that the nobles actually believed in the religious aspects of the Crusades.

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- Armenian Nobles and their families (children too) herded into a church and burned alive in it.

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But I suppose companies like Amazon, Barnes & Nobles probably require a lot of transaction support (otherwise their shopping carts could get really messy).

Quote examples

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The term "upper class" was reserved for nobles and other hereditary landowners.

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I doubt there's ever been an urban culture that didn't have some concept of property ownership, whether by individuals, "nobles", or the state.

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In Scotland for some weird combinations of their laws, and UK laws that I don't remember properly anymore, anyone can get a "nobility" title by owning land there, except UK laws say nobles are only those that can be peers in the parliament (House of Lords), and that scottish title is NOT one of them.

Proper noun examples

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Launched a publicity tour for my moms new book on leadership that debuted in every Barnes & Nobles.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use nobles in a sentence?

In ancient times (only a few hundred years ago, actually), peasants were ruled by kings and nobles.

What does nobles mean?

An unincorporated community in Henry County, Tennessee, United States.

What part of speech is nobles?

nobles is commonly used as noun.