English-French translations for nobility

• noblesse
  Mais le sang, lorsqu'il est bleu, signifie également noblesse, et nous devons dire que la noblesse ne fait pas défaut au rapporteur, M. Nisticò. However, blood also indicates nobility, when it is blue, and we have to admit that the rapporteur, Mr Nisticò, is not lacking in nobility.
  Monsieur le Président, noblesse oblige, je dois répondre à l'intervention positive et constructive de M. Bolkestein. Mr President, my sense of nobility obliges me to respond to the positive and constructive speech by Mr Bolkestein.
  Comment se fait-il qu'elle ait été construite de manière à ce que seule la noblesse soit exempte de taxes? We say, how could it possibly have been constructed so that only the nobility had exemption from taxation?
• nobilité
• noblesse d’Empire

Definition of nobility

• A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy
• The quality of being noble

Related words

• ignobility
• antinobility
• raise to nobility/peerage
• title of nobility
• high nobility
• marshal of the nobility
• raise to nobility