noun
Nobel
noh-BEHL
noun
1
Short for the Nobel Prize, one of the annual international awards for outstanding work in fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.
"She won a Nobel for her research into gene editing."
"The committee announced this year's Nobel in literature."
How to Use Nobel
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn informal short way of saying "Nobel Prize."
Common mistake
Don't confuse with "noble" (having fine moral qualities, or of aristocratic rank) — same sound, unrelated spelling and meaning.
Easily confused with
Common pairings
win a Nobel
Nobel laureate
Nobel committee
Word Forms
Nobels plural
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Etymology
Named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, who endowed the prizes in his 1895 will.