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A nobleman is a man in the highest social class who holds a title — duke, earl, baron, and names like that. The point is the title and the old class system, not only money. You meet it in history, fairy tales, and news about real titled families, especially in Britain. It is a fairly formal word. Though actually, students often hear noble and think “a good person”. That is another face of noble. Here noble means high-born. A rich businessman with no title is not a nobleman, even if he lives like one.
貴族男子(有公爵這類頭銜的男人)
組成noble (high-born, of the titled class) + man. From noble + man.
同家族的字
- noblethe first half: high-born, not “morally good” in this word
- noblewomanthe same class word, built for a woman
- nobilitythe titled class these men belong to
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
noblemannoun/ˈnoʊbl̩mən/
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A peer; an aristocrat; ranks range from baron to king to emperor.
- The King [...] sit at the head of the royal table with his elder warriors and advisers, noblemen and noblewomen.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。