noblesse
101noblesse oblige — [[t]noʊble̱s əbli͟ːʒ[/t]] N UNCOUNT Noblesse oblige is the idea that people with advantages, for example those of a high social class, should help and do things for other people. [FORMAL] They did so without hope of further profit and out of a… …
102Noblesse de robe — в дореволюционной Франции название дворянства, образовавшегося из лиц судебной профессии, в отличие от родовой знати рыцарского происхождения noblesse d épée …
103Noblesse oblige — No|blesse ob|lige auch: Nob|lesse ob|lige 〈[nɔblɛ̣s ɔbli:ʒ]〉 Adel verpflichtet (edel zu handeln) [frz.] * * * no|b|lesse ob|lige [nɔblɛsɔ bli:ʒ ; frz. = Adel verpflichtet] (bildungsspr., oft scherzh.): eine höhere gesellschaftliche Stellung… …
104noblesse oblige — (noh BLESS oh BLEEZH) [French: nobility requires] The understanding that the privileged existence of those in high places entails a moral responsibility to act honorably and generously toward others. Gillespie, exercising a monarch’s… …
105noblesse oblige — [ɒ bli:ʒ] privilege entails responsibility. → noblesse …
106noblesse oblige — /noʊblɛs oʊˈbliʒ/ (say nohbles oh bleezh) (an expression suggesting that the nobility has an obligation to display generous and honourable conduct): *The official asked a few questions in English, in a tone of noblesse oblige, then returned to… …
107noblesse — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French noblesce, from noble Date: 13th century 1. noble birth or condition 2. the members especially of the French nobility …
108noblesse — noun /nə(ʊ)ˈblɛs/ a) The quality of being noble; nobleness. ‘I woll never take more payne uppon me – and that ys grete pite, for he was a good knyght and of grete nobeles.’ b) The nobility; peerage …
109Noblesse — 1. Adel. 2. Ædelhed …
110noblesse — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. nobility, gentility, gentry; see aristocracy , royalty , society 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Noble rank or status by birth: birth, blood, blue blood, nobility. See KIN, OVER …
