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humble
CEFRB2
/ˈhʌmbəl/
adjective · verb
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Not thinking you are better than other people.
- 02
verb
To make someone less proud or confident.
Examples
Be humble enough to learn from your mistakes.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈʌmbəl/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsHaving a low position or a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
People with a low position or a low opinion of themselves; those who are not proud, arrogant, or assuming.
Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
More examples
In contextNo matter how humble it is, there's no place like home.
c. 590 AD: Liber Regulae Pastoralis by Pope Gregory I "The humble are to be admonished not to be more submissive than is right".
He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English humble, from Old French humble, umble, humle, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek χαμηλός (khamēlós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”). See homage, and compare chameleon, humiliate. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōd.