blue blood
an aristocrat, noble, or member of a socially prominent family.
aristocratic, noble, or socially prominent lineage or relatives: They boasted a lineage of pure blue blood.
Origin of blue blood
1Other words from blue blood
- blue-blooded, adjective
Words Nearby blue blood
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How to use blue blood in a sentence
The battle of blue bloods capped off Thursday night’s four play-in games to the main bracket.
2021 NCAA tournament live updates: Scores and analysis from the first round of March Madness | Matt Bonesteel | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostThe blue bloods you would expect to see at the top of the men’s bracket — Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas — have faltered this year in ways that can only partly be blamed on the pandemic.
Each is a blue blood in both the figurative and the chromatic.
The Blue Bloods Of Men’s College Basketball Are Rarely This Bad. (We’re Looking At You, Duke And Kentucky.) | Josh Planos | February 18, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightMichigan State is another college basketball blue blood in disarray this seasonBest of all, there isn’t an obvious hole in the Scarlet Knights’ postseason profile.
NCAA tournament bracketology: After 30 years, Rutgers will get its chance at March Madness | Patrick Stevens | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostBoth Gonzaga and Baylor are interesting cases this year, edging out the traditional blue bloods like Kentucky and Duke as well as the champions of the last couple of years, Villanova and Virginia.
College Basketball Muddles Through The Pandemic Like Everyone Else | Sarah Shachat | November 24, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
From the start, we see him as he is: a despot and a swindler, a Dallas blue-blood with FBI ties, fleeing a violent past.
This Week’s Hot Reads, July 15, 2013 | Sarah Stodola, Jen Vafidis, Damaris Colhoun | July 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Cold Mountain I did the blue-blood accent, and this one is totally different.
Nicole Kidman on Her Sexy, Award-Worthy Turn in ‘The Paperboy’ | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
No other women with less blue blood could even attempt to get away with what she seems to in fact be getting away with.
Blood will run in the streets of the city when I get up, the brown blood, the black blood, the blue blood.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseIn every drop of the blue blood of St. Louis there is a bubble of sporting blood.
The Cassowary | Stanley WaterlooWith Mrs. Garnett, one must have either plenty of very blue blood or more than plenty of very yellow gold.
At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins | Nell SpeedOh what a pity one cannot sell one's quality for daily bread, or trade off one's blue blood for black coffee.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories | Paul Laurence DunbarHis blue blood carries him through life with glory and straight to heaven when he dies.
British Dictionary definitions for blue blood
royal or aristocratic descent
Origin of blue blood
1Derived forms of blue blood
- blue-blooded, adjective
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