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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
humble/ˈhʌmbl/

▶adjective (humbler, humblest)

1 having or showing a low estimate of one's own importance.

2 of low rank.

3 of modest pretensions or dimensions.

▶verb lower in dignity or importance.

■ decisively defeat (a sporting opponent previously thought to be superior).

– phrases
eat humble pie make a humble apology and accept humiliation. [humble pie is from a pun based on umbles ‘offal’, considered inferior food.]

– derivatives
humbleness noun,
humbly adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr., from L. humilis ‘low, lowly’, from humus ‘ground’.

'humble' also found in these Oxford entries:

entreaty - goody - humble-bee - humiliate - humility - ignoble - IMHO - immodest - simple - suppliant - worm's-eye view

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