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

It’s named after Anders Adolph Retzius (1796-1860), a Swedish professor of anatomy and administrator at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which hands out the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026

As Ernest Hemingway's birthday rolls around each July, Florida bars from Key West to Miami Beach shake mojitos in tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning author. — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

Already, DeepMind has done Nobel Prize–winning research on protein-structure prediction, and the top models have already demonstrated impressive capabilities in mathematics research. — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

Nonlocality, whose experimental verification helped earn the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, allows distant quantum systems to produce correlations that cannot be explained by classical physics alone. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Nobel Prize

• advertise
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• amortize
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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