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nobel

Nobel Prize

noun NOH-bel Rare
People & Society Values

Origin: Named after Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish inventor of dynamite who established the prizes.

Also means

Nobel laureate

Usage Note

Nobel is an invariable noun in Italian — il Nobel, i Nobel, un Nobel (a Nobel Prize or a laureate). It is used for both the prize itself (vincere il Nobel per la fisica) and the person (un Nobel italiano). The accent falls on the first syllable in Italian, unlike Swedish.

Examples

"Ha vinto il Nobel per la letteratura ieri."

Natural Translation

She won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.

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