humble

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   low or inferior in station or quality

   a humble cottage

2. 2
   verb

   cause to be unpretentious

   This experience will humble him

3. 3
   adj

   Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

   He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.

4. 4
   adj

   Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

   But he giueth more grace, wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proude, but giueth grace vnto the humble.

5. 5
   noun

   An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

   You're on a corner in my district, it ain't gonna be about no humble, it ain't gonna be about no loitering charge, nothing like that. There gonna be some biblical shit happening to you on the way to that motherfucking jail wagon.

6. 6
   verb

   To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of.

   Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues have humbled to all strokes.

7. 7
   verb

   To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

   And you say you've been humbled in love / Cut down in your love / Forced to kneel in the mud next to me

8. 8
   verb

   To hum.

   humbling and bumbling

Etymology

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.