[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humble \hum"ble\ hu^m"b'l; 277, a. compar. humbler
   hu^m"bl~er; superl. humblest hu^m"ble^st. f.,
   fr. l. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
   ground. see homage, and cf. chameleon, humiliate.
   1. near the ground; not high or lofty.
      1913 webster

            thy humble nest built on the ground.  --cowley.
      1913 webster

   2. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
      modest; as, a humble cottage. used to describe objects.
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   3. thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
      self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
      self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
      of god; lowly; weak; modest. used to describe people.
      1913 webster

            god resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
            humble.                               --jas. iv. 6.
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            she should be humble who would please. --prior.
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            without a humble imitation of the divine author of
            our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
            nation.                               --washington.
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   humble plant bot., a species of sensitive plant, of the
      genus mimosa mimosa sensitiva.

   to eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
      apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
      humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
      entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
      to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. see
      humbles. --halliwell. --thackeray.
      1913 webster
see also:
humbler humblest homage chameleon humiliate humble plant 
mimosa mimosa sensitiva to eat humble pie humbles 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humble \hum"ble\, a.
   hornless. see hummel. scot.
   1913 webster
see also:
hummel 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humble \hum"ble\, v. t. imp.  p. p. humbled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   humbling.
   1. to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
      exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
      1913 webster

            here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
            plagues
            have humbled to all strokes.          --shak.
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            the genius which humbled six marshals of france.
                                                  --macaulay.
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   2. to make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
      arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
      meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
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            humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
            god, that he may exalt you.           --1 pet. v. 6.

   syn: to abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
        degrade.
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see also:
humbled humbling 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

humble
     adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
            "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
            "small beginnings" syn: low, lowly, modest, small
     2: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a
        humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing,
        he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"-
        b.k.malinowski ant: proud
     3: used of unskilled work especially domestic work syn: menial,
         lowly
     4: of low birth or station `base' is archaic in this sense;
        "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble or
        lowly birth" syn: base, baseborn, lowly
     v 1: cause to be unpretentious; "this experience will humble him"
     2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "he humiliated his
        colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" syn: humiliate,
         mortify, chagrin, abase
see also:
low lowly modest small proud menial 
base baseborn humiliate mortify chagrin 
abase 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

203 moby thesaurus words for "humble":
   abase, abash, abject, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting,
   adaptive, adjusting, altruistic, amenable, apologetic, base,
   baseborn, beat down, below the salt, bend, break, break down,
   bring down, bring low, bring to terms, broken, bump, bust,
   cast down, chagrin, chasten, chastened, cockney, committed, common,
   commonplace, compliant, conquer, consecrated, contrite, crush,
   debase, dedicated, deferential, deflate, degrade, demean,
   demeaning, demote, deplume, devoted, disadvantaged, discomfit,
   disgrace, disgrade, disinterested, displume, domesticated,
   dovelike, downgrade, embarrass, fell, flatten, gentle, homely,
   housebroken, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humbled, humblest,
   humiliate, ignoble, in the shade, inferior, infra dig, inglorious,
   innocuous, insignificant, junior, lamblike, least, less, lesser,
   let down, lose face, low, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowest,
   lowliest, lowly, master, mean, meek, melted, mild, minor, modest,
   mortify, nonclerical, obedient, obscure, obsequious, ordinary,
   overmaster, override, overwhelm, pacific, passive, peaceable,
   penitent, penitential, penitentiary, plain, plebeian, poor,
   prostrate, pull down, put down, put out, put to shame, quell,
   quiet, reconciled, reduce, repentant, reserved, resigned,
   respectful, ride down, rude, sacrificing, second rank,
   second string, secondary, self-abasing, self-abnegating,
   self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing,
   self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting,
   self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless,
   servile, shabby-genteel, shame, sheepish, simple, sink, small,
   smash, softened, strip of rank, sub, subaltern, subdue, subdued,
   subject, subjugate, submissive, subordinate, subservient, suppress,
   tame, tamed, teachable, third rank, third string, third-estate,
   touched, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot,
   tyrannize, unacquisitive, unambitious, unaspiring, unassuming,
   unboastful, uncomplaining, underprivileged, undistinguished,
   ungenteel, unimportant, unimposing, unman, unobtrusive,
   unostentatious, unpossessive, unprepossessing, unpresuming,
   unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, unresisting,
   unselfish, unsparing of self, unwashed, vanquish, vulgar

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

humble, tx city, fips 35348
  location: 29.99470 n, 95.26466 w
  population 1990: 12060 5260 housing units
  area: 25.5 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 77338, 77339, 77345, 77346, 77396

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

humble, tx -- u.s. city in texas
   population 2000:    14579
   housing units 2000: 5908
   land area 2000:     9.867487 sq. miles 25.556674 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.013151 sq. miles 0.034062 sq. km
   total area 2000:    9.880638 sq. miles 25.590736 sq. km
   fips code:            35348
   located within:       texas tx, fips 48
   location:             29.994920 n, 95.264873 w
   zip codes 1990:     77338 77339 77345 77346 77396
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    humble, tx
    humble

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