'Humble' definitions:

Definition of 'humble'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small]
adjective
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]
adjective
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: humble, menial, lowly]
adjective
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: base, baseborn, humble, lowly]
verb
Cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
verb
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase]

Definition of 'Humble'

From: GCIDE
  • Humble \Hum"ble\, a. Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Humble'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Humble'

From: GCIDE
  • Humble \Hum"ble\ (h[u^]m"b'l; 277), a. [Compar. Humbler (h[u^]m"bl[~e]r); superl. Humblest (h[u^]m"bl[e^]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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • She should be humble who would please. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation. --Washington. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]

Synonyms of 'humble'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Humble, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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.