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HIGHBORN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does highborn mean?
• HIGHBORN (adjective)
The adjective HIGHBORN has 1 sense:
1. belonging to the peerage
Familiarity information: HIGHBORN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Belonging to the peerage
Synonyms:
Context example:
the titled classes
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Context examples
In stumbling to the door, she upset the basket, and—oh horror!—the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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