Nobel Prize

noun

No·​bel Prize nō-ˈbel- 

ˈnō-ˌbel-

: any of various annual prizes (as in peace, literature, medicine) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of persons who work for the interests of humanity

called also Nobel

Examples of Nobel Prize in a Sentence

He won the Nobel Prize for economics.

Recent Examples on the Web

But in the early 1990s, Anton Zeilinger, who would later receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of entanglement, showed that this wasn’t always true. —Anil Ananthaswamy, Wired News, 16 Aug. 2025

Employees can get ice cream at Lou’s Soda Fountain, while Del’s Nobel Prize certificate hangs in the hallway across from The Cottage. —Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025

This is a guy who lays claim to want to get a Nobel Prize, sitting there and bending his knee to Mr. Putin. —Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

Both of those authors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for their novels and other work. —Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Nobel Prize

• advertise
• aggrandize
• agonize
• alibis
• alkalies
• alkalis
• amortize
• amplifies
• analyse
• analyze
• anywise
• authorize

Kids Definition

Nobel Prize

noun

No·​bel Prize (ˌ)nō-ˌbel- 

: an annual prize (as in literature, medicine, peace) established by the will of Alfred Nobel for the encouragement of people who work for the interests of humanity