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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
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Meaning of "Nobel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NOBEL

Nobel  [nəʊˈbɛl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NOBEL

noun
adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Nobel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NOBEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nobel

Nobel can mean: ▪ Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel ▪ The Nobel family: ▪ Alfred Nobel,, the inventor of dynamite, instituted the Nobel Prizes ▪ Immanuel Nobel,, father of Ludvig and Alfred Nobel ▪ Robert Nobel,, brother of Alfred Nobel, pioneer of the oil industry ▪ Ludvig Nobel,, brother of Alfred Nobel, founder of Branobel and its first president ▪ Emil Oskar Nobel,, brother of Alfred Nobel ▪ Emanuel Nobel,, son of Ludvig Nobel and Branobel's second president ▪ Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff,, daughter of Ludvig Nobel ▪ Claes Nobel, great grandnephew of Alfred ▪ Nobel, a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel ▪ Branobel, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry founded by Ludvig Nobel ▪ Nobelite, an employee of the Nobel family's companies ▪ Nobelium, a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102, named after Alfred Nobel ▪ Nobel Industries, a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel ▪ Nobel Industries - UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel, merged in 1994 with Akzo.

Definition of Nobel in the English dictionary

The definition of Nobel in the dictionary is Alfred Bernhard. 1833–96, Swedish chemist and philanthropist, noted for his invention of dynamite and his bequest founding the Nobel prizes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NOBEL


barbell
ˈbɑːˌbɛl
bel
bɛl
bell
bɛl
belle
bɛl
bluebell
ˈbluːˌbɛl
bonnibell
ˌbɒnɪˈbɛl
cascabel
ˈkæskəˌbɛl
cowbell
ˈkaʊˌbɛl
decibel
ˈdɛsɪˌbɛl
Dobell
dəʊˈbɛl
dumbbell
ˈdʌmˌbɛl
gabelle
ɡæˈbɛl
handbell
ˈhændˌbɛl
harebell
ˈhɛəˌbɛl
Isabel
ˈɪzəˌbɛl
Isobel
ˈɪzəʊbɛl
Jezebel
ˈdʒɛzəˌbɛl
mirabelle
ˈmɪrəˌbɛl
rebel
rɪˈbɛl
snowbell
ˈsnəʊˌbɛl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NOBEL

No.
no´
NO1
Noachian
Noachic
noah
Noah´s Ark
Noahide Laws
nob
nobbily
nobbiness
nobble
nobbler
nobbut
nobby
Nobel prize
nobelium
Nobile

WORDS THAT END LIKE NOBEL

Abel
Babel
barbel
Bebel
eco-label
field label
indie label
jebel
label
libel
luggage label
nebel
off label
own label
own-label
Pachelbel
record label
rubel
Santa Isabel
Schnabel

Synonyms and antonyms of Nobel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Nobel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NOBEL

Find out the translation of Nobel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Nobel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Nobel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

诺贝尔奖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Nobel
570 millions of speakers

English

Nobel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नोबेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نوبل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Нобелевская
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Nobel
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নোবেল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Nobel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nobel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nobel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ノーベル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노벨
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nobel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Nobel
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நோபல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नोबेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nobel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Nobel
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nobla
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Нобелівська
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Nobel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Νόμπελ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Nobelprys
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Nobel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Nobel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Nobel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NOBEL»

The term «Nobel» is very widely used and occupies the 13.249 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NOBEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Nobel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Nobel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Nobel

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10 QUOTES WITH «NOBEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Nobel.
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Philip Warren Anderson
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
2
Charles Glover Barkla
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
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Charles Glover Barkla
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
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Charles Glover Barkla
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
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Glenn Beck
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
6
Paul Berg
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
7
John Cameron
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
8
Aubrey de Grey
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
9
David Eddings
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Richard Gere
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOBEL»

Discover the use of Nobel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Nobel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige
A history of the Nobel Prize reveals the biases and controversies inherent in the choosing of award winners in each field, scandals, corruption, and the problems stemming from a refusal to change with modern times.
Burton Feldman, 2001
2
100 Years of Nobel Prizes
After His Retirement, He Selected Nobel Prize-Winners As A Population Universe To Study. This Book Is The Result Of His Investigations.
Baruch A. Shalev, 2003
3
Alfred Nobel: A Biography
A biography of the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prize uses Nobel's unpublished letters to offer a compelling account of this introverted, sickly, moody, yet ultimately humane man. Reprint.
Kenne Fant, 2006
4
Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States
Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science.
5
How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science
Nobel had also harbored a morbid fear of being buried alive. He acted on the fear with a specification at the end of his will that, “after my death, my arteries shall be cut open, . . . and death confirmed by a competent physician,”11 adding for ...
J. Michael BISHOP, J. Michael Bishop, 2009
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The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes, ...
Elisabeth Crawford was one of the first to gain access to the Nobel Archives at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in this book she analyzes the early history of the prizes in physics and chemistry.
Elisabeth Crawford, 1987
7
Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology
This is the fourth edition of an established and successful reference for plant scientists.
Park S. Nobel, 2009
8
The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail ...
A collection of essays written by various Nobel Prize winners about their fields of endeavor.
Bettina Stiekel, Various, 2003
9
Nobel: Celebrating a Century of the Nobel Prizes: Exhibition ...
Contents: Introduction; ¿Alfred Nobel -- A Brief Life,¿ by Margaretha Talerman; ¿What Did Alfred Nobel Do?,¿ by Robert E. Savage; & Bibliography. Illustrations.
Margaretha Talerman, Robert E. Savage, Margaretha Talerman, 2007
10
Nobel Prize Women in Science:: Their Lives, Struggles, and ...
The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science.
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOBEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Nobel is used in the context of the following news items.
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Winnipeg park could be named after Malala Yousafzai, Nobel
Two Winnipeg councillors are hoping to get a park in the city's St. Vital area named after Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager and ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Nobel prize winner to pension funds: Simplify!
Speaking at the launch of the Alexander Forbes Benefits Barometer 2015, Nobel laureate and distinguished professor at the MIT Sloan School ... «Moneyweb.co.za, Jul 15»
3
Vietnamese scientists will become Nobel laureates in 20 years
However, in the basic research area, Vietnamese scientists still find Nobel awards in science a far-fetched dream. There are many reasons ... «Tuoitrenews, Jul 15»
4
Mary Beard criticises Nobel Laureates plan
Professor Mary Beard has criticised plans to use the names of famous male academics as part of an enormous development project. Professor ... «Varsity Online, Jul 15»
5
I was never expecting a Nobel Prize for Ashley Madison, says …
So it's been a difficult decade in the sense that I was never expecting a Nobel Prize for building Ashley Madison, I know that, but what I do think ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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Chemistry Nobel Laureate to Speak at Pittcon 2016
Dr. Moerner's lecture will focus on his research in physical chemistry and chemical physics of single molecules, single-molecule biophysics, ... «spectroscopyNOW.com, Jul 15»
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A Week in the Life of Physicist Frank Wilczek
—Dr. Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Nobel prize Peter Higgs receives world's oldest scientific prize
London, Jul 23: Nobel prize winner Peter Higgs has joined the ranks of Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein by winning the world's oldest ... «India.com, Jul 15»
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Zhuhai to recruit Nobel laureates for research jobs
The city of Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong province plans to invite ten Nobel laureates to work on research and development (R&D) in ... «WantChinaTimes, Jul 15»
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TERI sacks Nobel laureate RK Pachauri, appoints Dr. Ajay Mathur …
Bengaluru: Controversial TERI chief R K Pachauri, who is facing sexual harrassment charges, was today removed as the Director General of ... «Mid-Day, Jul 15»

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