What is the meaning of humble?

verb

• Cause to be unpretentious.
  • usage: "This experience will humble him"
• Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
  • usage: "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
  • synonyms: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, abase

adjective

• Low or inferior in station or quality.
  • usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
  • synonyms: low, lowly, modest, small
• 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
• Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work.
  • synonyms: menial, lowly
• Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense))
  • usage: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly. birth"
  • synonyms: base, baseborn, lowly