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means A man who holds high social rank by inheritance or title, typically with land, privilege, and little obligation to have earned any of it.

from A straightforward compound: 'noble,' from Latin 'nobilis' meaning 'well-known' or 'notable' (from 'noscere,' to know — the noble were, quite literally, the ones everybody knew about), plus 'man.' The Latin sense drifted over centuries from 'notable by reputation' to 'notable by bloodline,' which tells you something about how aristocracy rewrote the dictionary in its own favor.