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

Geim won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog and then, 10 years later, received the Nobel Prize for Physics for a completely different discovery. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Aug. 2026

These supernovas were used as a kind of cosmological measuring stick to uncover a mysterious force called dark energy that was causing the universe to expand — a discovery that earned the Nobel Prize in 2011. — Joe Palca, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026

The team of physicists that inferred the existence of dark energy received a Nobel Prize in 2011. — Don Figer, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

In June, Google lost Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold with Hassabis, to Anthropic within a day of one another. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Nobel Prize

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

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