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单词 highborn
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highborn

adjective

high·​born ˈhī-ˈbȯrn How to pronounce highborn (audio)
: of noble birth

Synonyms

  • aristocratic
  • blue-blooded
  • genteel
  • gentle
  • grand
  • great
  • highbred
  • noble
  • patrician
  • silk-stocking
  • upper-class
  • upper-crust
  • wellborn
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Example Sentences

skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon
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Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined above

highborn

adjective

as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • aristocratic
  • noble
  • patrician
  • highbred
  • wellborn
  • blue-blooded
  • upper-class
  • upper-crust
  • royal
  • genteel
  • gentle
  • great
  • grand
  • exalted
  • silk-stocking
  • regal
  • knightly
  • senior
  • ennobled
  • queenly
  • lordly
  • princely
  • superior
  • high
  • kingly
  • gentlemanly
  • ladylike
  • lofty
  • elevated
  • high-level

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • common
  • plebeian
  • lowly
  • humble
  • low
  • ignoble
  • baseborn
  • mean
  • bastard
  • knavish
  • lower-class
  • inferior
  • ordinary
  • illegitimate
  • nonaristocratic
  • plain
  • ungenteel
  • junior
  • degraded
  • subordinate
  • abased
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