blue-blooded
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˈbluːˌblʌdɪd/
:
de sangre azul
- How did a blue-blooded Boston lady like you ever learn to shoot like that?
- a blue-blooded guy
- a blue-blooded son
- a blue-blooded family
Examples
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The blue-blooded backbone of our country.
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Look, I've got a lot of respect for my blue-blooded brothers, right?
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York was not as blue-blooded nor as capable as he supposed himself to be, but he thought he was best suited to rule.
Academic text (2011) -
Mary tossed her head to show what she thought of the blue-blooded South Carolina woman.
Fiction book (1992) -
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls.
Blog text (7) -
I don't think the blue-blooded Mr. Thayar going to like the idea of his daughter being married to a guy like me.
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Prince William: blue-blooded, handsome, suave, debonair, a hit with the ladies.
Blog text (9) -
And some blue-blooded affectations that grated—like saying things were "marvelous" when he thought nothing of the sort.
Fiction book (1999) -
A blue-blooded former NE governor was not my first choice (in the primary I voted for Paul), but he (Romney) is still more qualified than O'Barry was just by virtue of being a governor, no matter where.
Blog text (14) -
Her blue-blooded family had a long history of titles and privileges.
Synonyms
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4.4
Being from a high social family by birth
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8.1
Belonging to a rich, important family
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7.2
Like people from rich, important families who have high social rank
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9.1
Born into a noble family
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8.6
Having polite, elegant manners like upper class people
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7.5
A person from a noble or upper-class family
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7.4
A person from a noble or wealthy family with polite, refined manners
Belonging to the noble class and showing their manners and style
A person who comes from a rich or upper-class family
Antonyms
How Noble
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blue-blooded comes from Spanish sangre azul, which means 'blue blood' and was used for noble families whose very pale skin made their veins look blue. So, to be blue-blooded today is to belong to the nobility or be part of an aristocratic family.