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highborn

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highborn /ˈhaɪˈboɚn/ adjective
highborn
/ˈhaɪˈboɚn/
adjective
Learner's definition of HIGHBORN
formal
: born into a family with very high social status出身名门的
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highborn

adjective

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

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
Recent Examples on the Web Nannette, with her plain, angular face and hawklike eyes, wasn’t beautiful or highborn. Patricia Morrisroe, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020 Live, Love, Laugh, The Duke and Duchess of SussexAVAILABLE ITEMSPRINCELY AF sweatshirt (£80): Sharpie on a Champion-brand hooded sweatshirt—the perfect blend of highborn-lowbrow! Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2020 Modern Jerusalem was spared Disneyfication, first by the highborn culture of British colonialism, with its awe for the city’s antique past, and next by Jordanian paralysis, which froze the Old City as if in amber. Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019 One is a seedy refuge in Pigalle, with rat droppings on the floor and a lone bullet, left in a drawer; another is a château in the countryside, with snow on the ground and a highborn family in residence. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019 His highborn friends—including the funny Menenius Agrippa, played by Teagle F. Bougere, who makes Elizabethan English sound easy-peasy, the smoothest conversation—try to coax him out of war mode and into the hearts of the people. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019 And lucky for Arthur, Mera feels the same way, giving up her highborn birthright to marry ornery Orm, and choosing instead to travel with Arthur to the Sahara Desert and Sicily to find clues regarding the whereabouts of the super trident. Alex Abad-santos, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018 That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta. Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 June 2018 The dispute, no highborn version of a Thanksgiving dinner argument, involves divestment of ExxonMobil stock, lawsuits, and accusations of conspiracy by ExxonMobil against two family funds. Ben Ryder Howe, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of highborn was in the 13th century
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