Noun
nobility (countable and uncountable, plural nobilities)
- A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.
- Synonyms: aristocracy, noblesse, upper class
- Antonym: plebeian
- (uncountable) The quality of being noble.
- Synonyms: aristocracy, nobleness, noblesse
- Antonyms: meanness, ignobility
Translations
noble or privileged social class
- Afrikaans: adel, adelstand
- Albanian: fisnikëri (sq)
- Arabic: نُبْل m (nubl), نَبَالَة f (nabāla)
- Armenian: ազնվականություն (hy) (aznvakanutʻyun)
- Asturian: nobleza (ast) f
- Belarusian: двара́нства n (dvaránstva), шля́хта f (šljáxta)
- Bulgarian: аристокра́ция (bg) f (aristokrácija), дворя́нство (bg) n (dvorjánstvo)
- Catalan: noblesa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貴族 / 贵族 (zh) (guìzú)
- Czech: šlechta (cs) f
- Dutch: adel (nl) m
- Esperanto: nobelaro
- Estonian: aadel (et)
- Faroese: aðal m
- Finnish: aateli (fi)
- French: noblesse (fr) f
- Friulian: nobiltât f
- Galician: nobreza (gl) f
- Georgian: თავადაზნაურობა (tavadaznauroba), არისტოკრატია (arisṭoḳraṭia)
- German: Adel (de) m, Aristokratie (de) f, Nobilität (de)
- Greek: αριστοκρατία (el) f (aristokratía)
- Ancient: εὐγένεια f (eugéneia)
- Hebrew: אצולה f (atzula)
- Hungarian: nemesség (hu)
- Irish: uaisle f
- Italian: nobiltà (it) f
- Japanese: 貴族 (ja) (kizoku)
- Korean: 귀족 (ko) (gwijok)
- Latin: nōbilitās f
- Macedonian: благородништво n (blagorodništvo), дворјанство n (dvorjanstvo)
- Old English: æþelnes f, æþelu f or n
- Plautdietsch: Odel m
- Polish: szlachta (pl)
- Portuguese: nobreza (pt) f
- Romanian: nobilime (ro), noblețe (ro) f
- Russian: дворя́нство (ru) n (dvorjánstvo), аристокра́тия (ru) f (aristokrátija), знать (ru) f (znatʹ), шля́хта (ru) f (šljáxta) (Polish)
- Scottish Gaelic: uaisle f, uaisleachd f
- Serbo-Croatian: племство n, властела f, plemstvo (sh) n, vlastela (sh) f
- Slovak: šľachta f
- Slovene: plemstvo (sl) n
- Spanish: nobleza (es) f
- Swedish: adel (sv) c
- Tocharian B: klyomñe
- Ukrainian: дворя́нство n (dvorjánstvo), шля́хта f (šljáxta) (especially Polish)
- Vietnamese: quí tộc (vi)
- Yiddish: אַדל m (adl)
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the quality of being noble