ethel
NobleNoble.
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/ˈɛθ.əl/
» Ethel blushed harder, and stopped smiling.
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1 senses(obsolete)Noble.
Examples
6 sentencesEthel blushed harder, and stopped smiling.
Ethel was thinking about something else entirely.
Ethel was crying; the young man threw himself at her feet.
Ethel spent decades programming mainframes.
I like Fred and Ethel. More so Fred.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Middle English ethel, from Old English ǣþel, ēþel.Learned borrowing from Middle English ethel, from Old English ǣþel, ēþel.
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.