: 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
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He won the Nobel Prize for economics.
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Such a person could easily be awarded a Nobel Prize and ought to be one of the richest people ever.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
By 1969—the year of Beckett’s Nobel Prize for Literature—Waiting for Godot could already be read in dozens of languages, including Albanian, Marathi, and even Icelandic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
The other five Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economic sciences.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Han, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written about the Jeju uprising before in the brutal and lucid 2014 novel Human Acts.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
By 1969—the year of Beckett’s Nobel Prize for Literature—Waiting for Godot could already be read in dozens of languages, including Albanian, Marathi, and even Icelandic.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
The other five Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economic sciences.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Han, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written about the Jeju uprising before in the brutal and lucid 2014 novel Human Acts.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
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“Nobel Prize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nobel%20Prize. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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Nobel Prize
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No·bel Prize
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: 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
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