What's the difference between nobleman and noblemen?

Nobleman


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This finished with a concert performance of the finale from Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which tells the story of a nobleman, Florestan, who is rescued from prison by his wife dressed as a prison guard, Fidelio.
  • (2) A new allele (C3*F0.35) was detected in a Chinese individual and in a nobleman from Bali.
  • (3) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
  • (4) This paper presents and explains an early clinical discussion of the case of a young nobleman who had developed a severe speech impediment associated with anxiety.
  • (5) This note concerns the analysis of a work written in the early years of the century by a discredited Polish nobleman.
  • (6) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
  • (7) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
  • (8) The head of a once noble house, which he inherited from a great nobleman.
  • (9) The pool is spring-fed and there’s lots of local mystery surrounding it.” A woodcutter’s daughter, for example, is said to have met a tragic fate after being so scared by a nobleman on a horse that she swam into deeper water and drowned.
  • (10) Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor will play the sorcerous nobleman Baron Mordo opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel Studios’ forthcoming superhero epic Doctor Strange, reports Deadline .
  • (11) This was more like a scene in a Shakespeare play where a nobleman switches places with his servant.
  • (12) Ultimately, she ditches Severin for a hot-headed Greek nobleman.
  • (13) Olof af Acrel, the father of Swedish Surgery, operated in 1768 upon a young nobleman who had experienced an increasing swelling on the skull, due to a tumour which also turned out to be growing deep into the brain parenchyma.
  • (14) A married woman with a 12-year-old son is bored of her life and succumbs to a fling with a predatory nobleman; another woman is terrorised into blackmail by someone she assumes is the other "kept woman" of her lover; a doctor asks for sexual favours from the woman who has come to him for a secret abortion.
  • (15) In the second book of the Essais towards the end of the twelfth chapter Montaigne mentions a nobleman who does not take note of his blindness.
  • (16) So Mason could be lord and nobleman, a very upper-class fellow - he did that from his Flaubert in the silly MGM production of Madame Bovary to Brutus in the same studio's Julius Caesar, from Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait to the "prince of darkness" lawyer, Ed Concannon, in The Verdict.
  • (17) Goodwin Wharton (1653-1704) was a nobleman's son and a Whig MP who played no small part in English public life.
  • (18) Born in 1745 in the town of Como in what is now northern Italy, Volta was the son of a nobleman.

Noblemen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Nobleman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The point may seem to be simply describing Shylock’s implacability – but the fact that it occurs as Shylock is using logic and reason to rebuff the noblemen creates a link between his capacity for debate and the idea of him as inhumane, beyond empathy.
  • (2) Several images showed the magnificently booted Kushan noblemen in red and white robes who originally paid for the complex.
  • (3) A Swiss traveller counted over 30 in 1599, noting the perverse pride felt by noblemen seeing an ancestor’s head on a stick, grinning down at them.
  • (4) As many as 5,000 soldiers from Wales, including more than 180 knights and noblemen, lie buried somewhere in farmland north of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
  • (5) The closest historical parallel is not Gamal Abdel Nasser’s coup in 1952, which left most Egyptians still estranged from the state’s institutions and decision-making, but rather the stream of revolutions that swept across Europe in the late 1840s in which certain segments of society attempted for the first time to enter politics – hitherto the sole preserve of armies, monarchies, noblemen and the church.
  • (6) In a letter to Pope John XXII – composed in Latin, naturally – the noblemen of Scotland declared that as long as they remained alive “never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule”.
  • (7) The author used standard methods for the analysis of retrospective cohort studies, to investigate survival and life expectancy at age 25 years and older in 1,282 European noblemen who had been members of the Knighthood Order of the Golden Fleece between its foundation in 1430 and the early 1960's.

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