Definition of noblesse in English:

noblesse

noun nəʊˈblɛsnoʊˈblɛs

mass noun

The nobility of a foreign country.
Example sentencesExamples
- You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano.
- Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’
- And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show.
- The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
- Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House.

Phrases

noblesse oblige

Privilege entails responsibility.
the notion of noblesse oblige was part of the ethic of the country gentleman
Example sentencesExamples
- For what it's worth, I think this reveals something quite striking about the sense of noblesse oblige within each man upon their graduation from Yale and entry into a life of privilege.
- The dominant culture, masculinist and egalitarian, was opposed to any such display of noblesse oblige.
- The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation.
- Churchill's aristocratic background gave him a strong sense of noblesse oblige towards the poor, and although this was wrapped in a good deal of patronising terminology about ‘humble homes’ he was genuinely behind the drive.
- Conservation had its roots in the noblesse oblige of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the actions of patrician class individuals such as Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot.
- But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige.
- The thinkers and activists who built it insisted that the social provision of goods be treated as a right possessed by all people as citizens, rather than as an act of charity or noblesse oblige, a gift from some to others.…
- What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest?
- In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain.
- But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled.

Origin

French, literally 'nobility'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of noblesse in US English:

noblesse

nounnōˈblesnoʊˈblɛs

The nobility.
Example sentencesExamples
- The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
- Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’
- Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House.
- And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show.
- You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano.

Phrases

noblesse oblige

The inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.
there was to being a celebrity a certain element of noblesse oblige
Example sentencesExamples
- But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled.
- The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation.
- What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest?
- The thinkers and activists who built it insisted that the social provision of goods be treated as a right possessed by all people as citizens, rather than as an act of charity or noblesse oblige, a gift from some to others.…
- Conservation had its roots in the noblesse oblige of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the actions of patrician class individuals such as Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot.
- For what it's worth, I think this reveals something quite striking about the sense of noblesse oblige within each man upon their graduation from Yale and entry into a life of privilege.
- Churchill's aristocratic background gave him a strong sense of noblesse oblige towards the poor, and although this was wrapped in a good deal of patronising terminology about ‘humble homes’ he was genuinely behind the drive.
- But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige.
- The dominant culture, masculinist and egalitarian, was opposed to any such display of noblesse oblige.
- In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain.

Origin

French, literally ‘nobility’.

单词	noblesse
释义	Definition of noblesse in English: noblesse noun nəʊˈblɛsnoʊˈblɛs mass noun The nobility of a foreign country. Example sentencesExamples You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano. Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’ And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show. The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’ Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House. Phrases noblesse oblige Privilege entails responsibility. the notion of noblesse oblige was part of the ethic of the country gentleman Example sentencesExamples For what it's worth, I think this reveals something quite striking about the sense of noblesse oblige within each man upon their graduation from Yale and entry into a life of privilege. The dominant culture, masculinist and egalitarian, was opposed to any such display of noblesse oblige. The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation. Churchill's aristocratic background gave him a strong sense of noblesse oblige towards the poor, and although this was wrapped in a good deal of patronising terminology about ‘humble homes’ he was genuinely behind the drive. Conservation had its roots in the noblesse oblige of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the actions of patrician class individuals such as Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige. The thinkers and activists who built it insisted that the social provision of goods be treated as a right possessed by all people as citizens, rather than as an act of charity or noblesse oblige, a gift from some to others.… What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest? In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain. But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled. Origin French, literally 'nobility'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes noun.1 phr. Definition of noblesse in US English: noblesse nounnōˈblesnoʊˈblɛs The nobility. Example sentencesExamples The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’ Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’ Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House. And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show. You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano. Phrases noblesse oblige The inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged. there was to being a celebrity a certain element of noblesse oblige Example sentencesExamples But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled. The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation. What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest? The thinkers and activists who built it insisted that the social provision of goods be treated as a right possessed by all people as citizens, rather than as an act of charity or noblesse oblige, a gift from some to others.… Conservation had its roots in the noblesse oblige of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in the actions of patrician class individuals such as Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. For what it's worth, I think this reveals something quite striking about the sense of noblesse oblige within each man upon their graduation from Yale and entry into a life of privilege. Churchill's aristocratic background gave him a strong sense of noblesse oblige towards the poor, and although this was wrapped in a good deal of patronising terminology about ‘humble homes’ he was genuinely behind the drive. But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige. The dominant culture, masculinist and egalitarian, was opposed to any such display of noblesse oblige. In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain. Origin French, literally ‘nobility’. noun.1 phr.
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