highborn

Examples

• All

• Highborn men were there, and ladies so white they looked like milk poured into samite skins.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Highborn connections are no substitute for hard work.

  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

• She's a highborn lady of quality.

  Robin Hood (1973)

• It is not enough to be highborn.

  Prince Valiant (1954)

• Artifacts of the "first" Rococo could still be seen in large numbers -- mostly found in the homes of the highborn and wealthy.

  Academic text (2014)

• When a girl is highborn, everyone pampers her and a lot about her remains hidden, so that she naturally seems a paragon.

  Fiction book (2001)

• 'I love thee for thy highborn grace, 'Thy deep and lustrous eye, 'For the sweet meaning of thy brow, 'and for thy bearing so high.

  Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

• It was not the custom for highborn maidens to travel unescorted, with or without the availability of sturdy footbridges.

  Fiction book (2002)

• She attended the gala in her elegant dress, proud to be a highborn member of society.

• Despite being highborn, he chose to live a simple life away from the expectations of his family.

Synonyms

A

aristocratic

vshighborn

19 7.2

Like people from rich, important families who have high social rank

emphasizes birth and lineage more than manners or social traits

U

upper-class

vshighborn

11 4.3

Belonging to the richest and most powerful people in society

is specific to family lineage rather than general social or economic status

B

blue-blooded

vshighborn

1 8.2

A person who comes from a royal or noble family and has high social rank

is used to stress belonging to upper classes by family lineage

H

highbred

vshighborn

• Literature

1 7.4

A person from a noble or wealthy family with polite, refined manners

focuses on family lineage rather than social refinement or manners

W

wellborn

vshighborn

• Archaic

9.1

A person who comes from a rich or upper-class family

is the general term stressing birth and family lineage specifically

Antonyms

C

commoner

31 4.2

A person without a noble title who is an ordinary member of society

Compounds

H

highborn family

• Literature

7.6

A family from a noble or upper-class background

H

highborn guest

• Literature

8.8

A guest from a noble family like a prince or lord

H

highborn status

• Literature

9.3

Being a member of a noble family with high social rank

How Noble

royal

497 3.1

highborn

• Literature

1 7.5

lowborn

• Archaic

1 7.4

common

797 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology