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humble
/ˈhʌmbəl/
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What does humble mean?
adjective
- Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
- Having a low position or a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
noun
- People with a low position or a low opinion of themselves; those who are not proud, arrogant, or assuming.
More meanings (10)
noun
- (slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
- Alternative form of hummel.
verb
- To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
- To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
- Alternative form of hummel.
- (obsolete) To hum.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A small town in Langeland municipality, island of Langeland, southern Denmark.
- An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky, United States.
- A city in Harris County, Texas, United States, the former home of Humble Oil.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhʌmbəl/
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He was so much the humblest of them, indeed he was the only humble one, that Wendy was specially gentle with him.
All the songs, the melodies of some of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of evoking tears.
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I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter.
It had been his standing desire to become a prophet, however humble, to his struggling fellow-creatures, without any thought of personal gain.
In that case, just do me the favour of not believing a word she says, if she speaks of your humble servant.