highborn
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of highborn
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at high, born
Example Sentences
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A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Historically, British queens have tapped highborn “ladies-in-waiting” to provide company to the monarch and serve as personal assistants and loyal friends.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2022
It is while fishing around in her subconscious that Dr. Bruckner discovers her previous incarnation as Melinda, the highborn daughter of an antislavery crusader in Georgian England.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018
Unless you, gentle reader, are a highborn scion of the landed aristocracy, the inheritor of wealth and privilege, the proud bearer of a patrician sigil, do you imagine they would care about you?
From Salon • May 1, 2016
Skahaz was convinced that somewhere in Meereen the Sons of the Harpy had a highborn overlord, a secret general commanding an army of shadows.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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