Usually means: Showing modesty in one's importance.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. humble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. humble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. humble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. humble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Humble, humble: Wordnik
  7. humble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Humble, humble: Wiktionary
  9. humble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. humble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. humble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Humble, humble: Dictionary.com
  13. humble (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. humble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HUMBLE, Humble (Kendrick Lamar song), Humble (disambiguation), Humble (production studio), Humble (song), Humble (surname), Humble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Humble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. humble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. humble: Rhymezone
  19. humble, humble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. humble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. humble: Free Dictionary
  22. humble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. humble: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. humble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. humble: Legal dictionary

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  1. humble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. humble: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HUMBLE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. humble: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See humbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
adjective:  Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
noun:  (Baltimore, slang) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.
verb:  (transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To hum.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A small town in Langeland municipality, island of Langeland, southern Denmark.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky, United States.
noun:  A city in Harris County, Texas, United States, the former home of Humble Oil.
noun:  (Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) Alternative form of hummel. [(Northern England, Scotland, also attributive) A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns.]
verb:  (transitive) Alternative form of hummel. [(transitive) Of an animal: to remove the horns; to poll.]

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