lowborn
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˈloʊbɔrn/
- Archaic
:
de baja cuna
- The king's council often debated the role of lowborn citizens in the kingdom's affairs.
He brings in gladiators, all sorts of other people, lowborn slaves, has them forced themselves on her.
- He brings in gladiators, all sorts of other people, lowborn slaves, has them forced themselves on her.
Examples
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His wife Antonina is the best friend of Empress Theodora and, like her from a lowborn background, the daughter of an actress.
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- ...but a lowborn serf.
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Will they seem to want to keep their distance from one so lowborn?
Fiction book (1993) -
The stench of a lowborn slave cannot escape him.
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He brings in gladiators, all sorts of other people, lowborn slaves, has them forced themselves on her.
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He's a lowborn blatherskite of filth.
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"The Regent of Waes couldn't, so his lowborn wife did," she snapped.
Fiction book (1992) -
The lowborn son of a farmer cannot be expected to behave with a gentleman’s sense of propriety.
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Fine prince, you turned out to be, flinging rocks like any lowborn ruffian I've never been unhorsed by such a scurvy trick!
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It was, perhaps, regrettable that such a policy allowed the occasional lowborn embarrassment entry, but it also meant that only the most qualified warriors from the ranks of the gently born were admitted as well.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.3
Having little social rank or importance
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3.4
From a low social rank or simple background
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4.2
A person of low rank or importance, for example a servant
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4.9
From the lowest social or economic group and seen as having low status
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3.5
People who have little money, little education, or low social status
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9.9
A person who is born into a low social class and not into a noble family
From a family without titles or high social rank
From a common family, not of noble birth
Antonyms
How Highborn
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lowborn is made of low ('not high') and born ('by birth'), like in the familiar word newborn. So lowborn describes someone who was 'born' into a low social class or a humble family.