nobel
IPA: noʊbˈɛɫ
Root Word: Nobel
noun
- A surname from Swedish, especially referring to Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
- A Nobel Prize.
adjective
- Misspelling of noble. [Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.]
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Examples of "nobel" in Sentences
- It turns out she has read all the Latin American nobel prize winners we haven’t read.
- I know young lady changing bed pans at a nursing home who reads all the Latin American nobel prizewinning authors I wish I read.
- Some digging reveals a local wastrel nobel is involved, up to ears in debt, but he ends up with a few problems with the God In the Bowl, of the mortal kind.
- There is elegant meaning to be found here: Allenby unites something associated with idealistic hope placed in the best of humanity, the Nobel Prize (I think we should accept the pun on 'noble' at this point, and Wiktionary says that 'nobel' is Swedish for 'noble'), with berserk, artificially-induced battle-frenzy.
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