as in lady
a woman of high birth or social position traditionally, noblewomen—whether they are titled or not—have served as great patronesses of the arts

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Recent Examples of noblewoman The British noblewoman, 61, shared the news about her health in an emotional first-person piece for The Telegraph on March 30. Janine Henni, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025 Isola, by Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman’s novel follows the story of real-life French noblewoman Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval in 1542. Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2025 Three bodies were found on the property, including a possible slave and a noblewoman clutching jewelry and gold coins. Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2025 Here, the grand portals to the spa are flanked by two fine classical marble statues, one of an unnamed noblewoman and the other of Julius Caesar. Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for noblewoman
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Noun
  • Actually, one of the other great inspirations for me was Mary Poppins — not the film, but the person, the lady.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
  • King Charles has used the gesture of affection to address the first lady of France in the past as well.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Louise Brooks wooed a father and son as well as a countess in a tuxedo.
    Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
  • The 60-year-old countess has broken her silence after she was seen sporting a massive diamond on her left ring finger while riding a scooter Monday in Sag Harbor, hours after she was snapped getting cozy with an unidentified man, Us Weekly reports.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Then, in one outdoor scene, Lilibet can be seen standing beside the duchess on a footbridge as the mother-daughter duo appears to marvel at something below.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • Some of the accusations stung, but dealing with that — along with tasting the occasional fresh strawberry from a duchess’s garden — is sometimes part of the job.
    Julia Moskin, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The novelists’ parents were Patrick and Maria Brontë, an Irish clergyman and a Cornish gentlewoman who married in 1812.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • But Mary declined, preferring an informal gentlewoman’s agreement instead.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Noblewoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noblewoman. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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