blue
45
8.1
- adjective
- /bluː/
- UK
:
aristocrático
- How blue is your blood?
Examples
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I've never been able to resist an eastern blue blood, but you, Emily, you're fantastic.
Fiction book (1995) -
The woman is another blue blood, a wealthy widow; her money is old, she's about forty.
Fiction book (1995) -
His wife's a proper blue blood.
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Mary tossed her head to show what she thought of the blue-blooded South Carolina woman.
Fiction book (1992) -
I went dancing with him, a young blue-blooded Bostonian.
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Because the pride of blue-blood Yankees often outlasts their wealth.
Fiction book (1998) -
Inspection, meaning you're gonna stand around like an idiot... while a bunch of blue bloods smirk at you.
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Lady Boleyn came from a blue blood family and was known for her grace and elegance.
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At the gala, only those of blue ancestry were invited to attend the private dinner.
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He often mentioned his blue heritage with pride, knowing it linked him to a long line of nobility.
Synonyms
128
4.4
Being from a high social family by birth
19
7.2
Like people from rich, important families who have high social rank
17
9.1
Born into a noble family
4
8.6
Having polite, elegant manners like upper class people
1
8.2
A person who comes from a royal or noble family and has high social rank
Belonging to the noble class and showing their manners and style
Antonyms
Idioms
1
9.0
You must choose between two options that are both bad
To start something that quickly becomes exciting or causes strong debate
Compounds
- US
7
5.1
A range of Appalachian mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia that look blue from far away
- Specialized
4
4.1
A share of a large, well-known company that is safe and pays steady dividends
4
3.3
A mountain range in the eastern United States from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
- Specialized
2
8.4
A very large powerful bomb the US military uses to destroy enemy positions
- US
2
3.4
A bluish crab that lives on North America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts and is eaten for its sweet meat
- Formal
2
6.1
An independent group of respected experts who study a public problem and give advice
- Jargon
2
9.5
An unwritten rule among police officers not to report a colleague's illegal actions to protect them from punishment
1
4.6
A large bird with blue-grey feathers, long legs and a long neck that lives near water
- US
1
9.9
A type of walleye fish with bluish color that lived in the Great Lakes and is now extinct
- Specialized
1
9.9
Bright blue electric flashes that shoot up from thundercloud tops into the upper sky
- Specialized
1
5.8
A way to release software using two identical systems to move users to the new version
1
6.8
A deep bright blue paint color first made from a stone called lapis lazuli and now often made artificially
- Formal
1
5.9
A group of respected experts chosen to study an important public problem and give advice
- US
1
6.5
A plant that lives for many years and has clusters of blue, star-shaped flowers in the southeastern United States
1
7.7
A water plant with blue flowers that people often use in art, religion, and traditional medicine
- Specialized
1
7.0
A musical note played a bit lower in jazz and blues to sound sad and emotional
How Aristocratic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The use of blue to mean 'noble' comes from Spanish sangre azul, meaning 'blue blood', because pale skin showed blue veins and this idea was used for aristocracy.